ABOUT ME

I'm a freelance graphic designer, and my work allows me to travel as much as I want, and I enjoy it because I'm addicted to travelling. My portfolio is here: http://www.behance.net/babayuka

PHILOSOPHY

I like to help people be free and do what they really want to do.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

sometimes I surf, sometimes I host.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I remember all the people I met on CS. They are great! With a wide spread of interests and a high level of communication and understanding things. And I want to continue this cultural experience:)

Interests

Travels, photos, languages, music, movies, people, places, architecture, sun, sand, bright colours, artists, books, monkeys, fried bananas, shopping in Jodhpur, green tea, red wine, blue cheese, drawing, yoga, thai massage, Paramount Hotel in Pushkar, pandas, tarsiers.

• books
• architecture
• design
• graphic design
• dancing
• wine
• red wine
• cheese
• yoga
• boating
• shopping
• movies
• traveling
• drawing
• music
• snorkeling
• snowboarding
• freelancing
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

MOVIES

Abdellatif Kechiche:

2000 La Faute à Voltaire
2003 Games of Love and Chance
2007 The Secret of the Grain
2010 Black Venus
2013 Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Park Chan-wook:

1992 The Moon
1999 Judgement
2000 Joint Security Area
2002 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance
2003 If You Were Me (N.E.P.A.L.:Never Ending Peace and Love)
2003 Oldboy
2004 Extremes (Cut)
2005 Lady Vengeance
2006 I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK
2009 Thirst
2012 Stoker

Mark de Cloe:

2009 Het leven uit een dag / Life In One Day
2010 Shocking Blue
2011 The Strongest Man in Holland

Michel Gondry:

2001 Human Nature
2004 Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2006 The Science of Sleep
2008 Be Kind Rewind
2011 The Green Hornet
2012 The We & the I

Michelangelo Antonioni:

1950 Cronaca di un amore
1953 La signora senza camelie
1953 I viniti
1955 Le amiche
1957 Il grido
1960 L'avventura
1961 La notte
1962 L'™eclisse
1964 Red Desert / Il deserto rosso
1966 Blowup
1970 Zabriskie Point
1975 The Passenger / Professione: reporter
1981 The Mystery of Oberwald / Il mistero di Oberwald
1982 Identification of a Woman / Identificazione di una donna
1995 Beyond the Clouds / Al di la delle nuvole (with Wim Wenders)

Federico Fellini:

1957 Le notti di Cabiria
1963 8 1/2
1973 Amarcord

Bernardo Bertolucci:

1962 La commare secca
1964 Before the Revolution / Prima della rivoluzione
1965 La via del petrolio
1966 Il Canale
1968 Partner
1969 Amore e rabbia (episode "Agonia")
1970 La strategia del ragno / The Spider's Stratagem
1970 Il conformista / The Conformist
1971 La salute e malata
1972 Ultimo tango a Parigi / Last Tango in Paris
1976 1900 / Novecento
1979 La Luna / Luna
1981 La tragedia di un uomo ridicolo
1987 L'ultimo imperatore / The Last Emperor
1990 The Sheltering Sky
1994 Little Buddha
1996 Stealing Beauty / Io ballo da sola
1998 Besieged
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Cello
2003 The Dreamers
2012 You and Me

Jim Jarmusch:

1980 Permanent Vacation
1984 Stranger Than Paradise
1986 Down by Law
1989 Mystery Train
1991 Night on Earth
1995 Dead Man
1999 Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai
2003 Coffee and Cigarettes
2005 Broken Flowers
2009 The Limits of Control
2012 Only Loves Left Alive

Emir Kusturica:

1978 Guernica (short)
1978 The Brides Are Coming / Nevjeste dolaze (TV film)
1979 Buffet Titanic / Bife Titanik (TV film)
1981 Do You Remember Dolly Bell?
1984 Nije covjek ko ne umre (TV film)
1985 When Father Was Away on Business
1988 Time of the Gypsies
1993 Arizona Dream
1995 Underground / Podzemlje
1998 Black Cat, White Cat
2001 Super 8 Stories (documentary)
2004 Life Is a Miracle
2007 Promise Me This / Zavet
2008 Maradona (documentary)

Francois Truffaut:

1959 The 400 Blows / Les Quatre Cents Coups
1960 Shoot the Piano Player / Tirez sur le pianiste
1962 Jules and Jim / Jules et Jim
1964 The Soft Skin / La Peau douce
1966 Fahrenheit 451
1968 The Bride Wore Black
1968 Stolen Kisses
1969 Mississippi Mermaid
1970 The Wild Child / L'Enfant sauvage
1970 Bed and Board / Domicile conjugal
1971 Two English Girls / Les Deux anglaises et le continent
1972 Such a Gorgeous Kid Like Me / Une belle fille comme moi
1973 Day for Night
1975 The Story of Adele H.
1976 Small Change / L'Argent de poche
1977 The Man Who Loved Women / L'Homme qui aimait les femmes
1978 The Green Room / La Chambre verte
1979 Love on the Run / L'Amour en fuite
1980 The Last Metro / Le dernier metro
1981 The Woman Next Door
1983 Confidentially Yours / Vivement dimanche!

Francois Ozon:

1996 Une robe
1997 Regarde la mer
1998 Sitcom
1999 Criminal Lovers / Les amants criminels
2000 Water Drops on Burning Rocks / Gouttes d'eau sur pierres brulantes
2000 Under the Sand / Sous le sable
2002 8 Women / 8 femmes
2003 Swimming Pool
2004 5x2
2005 Time To Leave / Le temps qui reste
2007 Angel
2009 Ricky
2009 Le Refuge
2010 Potiche
2012 In the House

Woody Allen:

1966 What's Up, Tiger Lily?
1969 Take the Money and Run
1971 Bananas
1972 Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex*(*But Were Afraid to Ask)
1973 Sleeper
1975 Love and Death
1977 Annie Hall
1978 Interiors
1979 Manhattan
1980 Stardust Memories
1982 A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy
1983 Zelig
1984 Broadway Danny Rose
1985 The Purple Rose of Cairo
1986 Hannah and Her Sisters
1987 Radio Days
1987 September
1988 Another Woman
1989 New York Stories
1989 Crimes and Misdemeanors
1990 Alice
1991 Shadows and Fog
1992 Husbands and Wives
1993 Manhattan Murder Mystery
1994 Bullets Over Broadway
1995 Mighty Aphrodite
1996 Everyone Says I Love You
1997 Deconstructing Harry
1998 Celebrity
1999 Sweet and Lowdown
2000 Small Time Crooks
2001 The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
2002 Hollywood Ending
2003 Anything Else
2004 Melinda and Melinda
2005 Match Point
2006 Scoop
2007 Cassandra's Dream
2008 Vicky Cristina Barcelona
2009 Whatever Works
2010 You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
2011 Midnight in Paris
2012 To Rome with Love
2013 Blue Jasmine
2014 Magic in the Moonlight

David Lynch:

1977 Eraserhead
1980 The Elephant Man
1984 Dune
1986 Blue Velvet
1990 Wild at Heart
1992 Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
1997 Lost Highway
1999 The Straight Story
2001 Mulholland Drive
2006 Inland Empire

Jean-Pierre Jeunet:

1991 Delicatessen
1995 The City of Lost Children
1997 Alien Resurrection
2001 Amelie
2004 A Very Long Engagement
2009 Micmacs

Wim Wenders:

1970 Summer in the City (Dedicated to The Kinks)
1973 The Scarlet Letter / Der Scharlachrote Buchstabe
1974 Alice in the Cities (First part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy)
1975 The Wrong Move / Falsche Bewegung (Second part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy, with Nastassja Kinski)
1976 Kings of the Road / Im Lauf der Zeit (Third part of Wenders' Road Movie Trilogy)
1977 The American Friend / Der Amerikanische Freund
1982 Hammett
1982 Room 666 / Chambre 666 (Short documentary interviews directors on the future of cinema, including Steven Spielberg, Jean-Luc Godard, and Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Filmed at Cannes)
1982 The State of Things / Stand der Dinge
1984 Paris, Texas
1987 Wings of Desire
1990 Red Hot + Blue
1991 Until the End of the World / Bis ans Ende der Welt
1992 Arisha, the Bear and the Stone Ring
1993 Faraway, So Close! / In weiter Ferne, so nah! (Sequel to Wings of Desire)
1994 Lisbon Story (Partially a sequel to The State of Things)
1995 Beyond the Clouds / Jenseits der Wolken (with Michelangelo Antonioni)
1995 A Trick of Light (Also known as The Brothers Skladanowsky)
1997 The End of Violence
1998 Willie Nelson at the Teatro
1999 Buena Vista Social Club (Documentary about Cuban musicians; made with Ry Cooder)
2000 The Million Dollar Hotel
2002 Ten Minutes Older (Contributed segment "Twelve Miles to Trona")
2003 The Soul of a Man (Documentary about Blues musicians)
2004 Land of Plenty
2005 Don't Come Knocking
2008 Palermo Shooting
2011 Pina

Wayne Wang:

1975 A Man, a Woman, and a Killer
1982 Chan Is Missing
1985 Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart
1987 Slam Dance
1988 Dim Sum Take Out
1989 Eat a Bowl of Tea
1989 Life Is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive
1991 Strangers (Erotic film consisted of three shorts, co-directed by Joan Tewkesbury and Daniel Vigne)
1993 The Joy Luck Club
1995 Smoke
1995 Blue in the Face
1997 Chinese Box
1999 Anywhere but Here
2001 The Center of the World
2002 Maid in Manhattan
2005 Because of Winn-Dixie
2006 Last Holiday
2007 A Thousand Years of Good Prayers
2008 The Princess of Nebraska
2009 Chinatown Film Project
2011 Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Rainer Werner Fassbinder:

1969 Katzelmacher / Cock Artist
1970 Gods of the Plague
1970 The Coffee House / Das Kaffeehaus
1970 Why Does Herr R. Run Amok?
1970 The American Soldier / Der amerikanische Soldat
1970 The Niklashausen Journey / Die Niklashauser Fahrt
1971 Rio das Mortes
1971 Pioneers in Ingolstadt / Pioniere in Ingolstadt
1971 Whity
1971 Beware of a Holy Whore / Warnung vor einer heiligen Nutte
1972 The Merchant of Four Seasons
1972 The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant
“1973 Eight Hours Are Not a Day / Acht Stunden sind kein Tag
1972 Bremen Freedom / Bremer Freiheit
1973 Jail Bait / Wildwechsel
1973 World on a Wire / Welt am Draht
1974 Nora Helmer
1974 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul / Angst essen Seele auf
1974 Martha
1974 Effi Briest
1975 Like a Bird on a Wire / Wie ein Vogel auf dem Draht
1975 Fox and His Friends / Faustrecht der Freiheit
1975 Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven
1975 Fear of Fear / Angst vor der Angst
1976 I Only Want You to Love Me
1976 Satan's Brew / Satansbraten
1976 Chinese Roulette / Chinesisches Roulette
1977 Women in New York / Frauen in New York
1977 The Stationmaster's Wife / Bolwieser
1978 Germany in Autumn / Deutschland im Herbst
1978 Despair
1978 In a Year of 13 Moons / In einem Jahr mit 13 Monden
1979 The Marriage of Maria Braun / Die Ehe der Maria Braun
1979 The Third Generation / Die dritte Generation
1980 Berlin Alexanderplatz / Berlin Alexanderplatz
1981 Lili Marleen
1981 Lola
1982 Veronika Voss / Die Sehnsucht der Veronika Voss
1982 Querelle

Terry Gilliam:

1975 Monty Python and the Holy Grail
1977 Jabberwocky
1981 Time Bandits
1985 Brazil
1988 The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
1991 The Fisher King
1995 12 Monkeys
1998 Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
2005 The Brothers Grimm
2005 Tideland
2009 The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
2013 The Zero Theorem

Fatih Akın:

1995 Sensin... You're the One! / Sensin - Du bist es!
1996 Weed
1998 Short Sharp Shock / Kurz und schmerzlos
2000 Im Juli
2001 Denk ich an Deutschland - Wir haben vergessen zurückzukehren
2002 Solino
2004 Head-On / Gegen die Wand
2004 Visions of Europe (segment "Die bösen alten Lieder")
2004 Kebab Connection
2005 Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul
2007 The Edge of Heaven / Auf der anderen Seite
2008 New York, I Love You
2009 Soul Kitchen
2012 Polluting Paradise / Der Müll im Garten Eden

Krzysztof Kieślowski:

1975 Personnel / Personel (TV drama)
1976 The Scar / Blizna
1978 The Calm (TV drama)
1979 Camera Buff / Amator
1981 Short Working Day
1981 Blind Chance / Przypadek
1984 No End
1988 The Decalogue / Dekalog
1988 A Short Film About Killing
1988 A Short Film About Love
1991 The Double Life of Véronique
1993 Three Colors: Blue / Trois couleurs: Bleu/Trzy kolory: Niebieski
1994 Three Colors: White / Trois couleurs: Blanc
1994 Three Colors: Red / Trois couleurs: Rouge/Trzy kolory: Czerwony

Martin Scorsese:

1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1976 Taxi Driver
1977 New York, New York
1980 Raging Bull
1983 The King of Comedy
1985 After Hours
1986 The Color of Money
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ
1990 Goodfellas
1991 Cape Fear
1993 The Age of Innocence
1995 Casino
1997 Kundun
2002 Gangs of New York
2004 The Aviator
2006 The Departed
2011 Hugo

Jean-Luc Godard:

1960 À bout de souffle / Breathless
1961 Une femme est une femme / A Woman Is a Woman
1962 Vivre sa vie / To Live One's Life — a.k.a. My Life to Live
1963 Le Petit soldat / The Little Soldier
1963 Les Carabiniers / The Riflemen
1963 Le Mépris / Contempt
1964 Bande à part / Band of Outsiders
1964 Une femme mariée / A Married Woman
1965 Alphaville
1965 Pierrot le fou
1966 Masculin Féminin / Masculine Feminine
1966 Made in U.S.A.
1966 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle / 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
1967 La Chinoise
1967 Week End

Claude Lelouch:

1960 Le Propre de l'homme
1962 L'Amour avec des si
1963 La Femme spectacle
1964 Une fille et des fusils
1965 Les Grands Moments
1965 Pour Un Maillot Jaune
1966 Un homme et une femme
1967 Vivre pour vivre
1968 La Vie, l'amour, la mort
1968 13 jours en France
1969 Un Homme qui me plaît
1970 Le Voyou
1971 Smic, Smac, Smoc
1972 L'aventure c'est l'aventure
1973 La bonne année
1973 Visions of Eight
1974 Mariage
1974 Toute une vie
1975 Le Bon et les méchants
1975 Le Chat et la souris
1976 C'était un rendez-vous
1976 Si c'était à refaire
1977 Un autre homme, une autre chance
1978 Robert et Robert
1979 À nous deux
1981 Les Uns et les Autres
1982 Édith et Marcel
1983 Viva la vie
1984 Partir, revenir
1986 Attention bandits!
1986 Un homme et une femme : vingt ans déjà
1988 Itinéraire d'un enfant gâté
1989 Il y a des jours... et des lunes
1992 La Belle Histoire
1992 Tout ça... pour ça!
1995 Les Misérables
1995 Lumière et compagnie
1996 Hommes, femmes, mode d'emploi
1997 Hasards ou coïncidences
1999 Une pour toutes
2001 And now... Ladies and Gentlemen
2002 11'9''01 September 11 (segment "France")
2004 Les Parisiens
2005 Le Courage d'aimer
2007 Roman de Gare
2010 Ces amours là
2011 D'un film à l'autre
2014 Salaud, on t'aime!

Gus Van Sant:

1985 Mala Noche
1989 Drugstore Cowboy
1991 My Own Private Idaho
1993 Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
1995 To Die For
1997 Good Will Hunting
1998 Psycho
2000 Finding Forrester
2002 Gerry
2003 Elephant
2005 Last Days
2007 Paranoid Park
2008 Milk
2011 Restless
2012 Promised Land
TBA Death Note

Alex van Warmerdam:

1986 Abel
1992 The Northerners
1996 The Dress
1998 Little Tony
2003 Grimm
2006 Waiter
2009 The Last Days of Emma Blank
2013 Borgman

Werner Herzog:

1968 Signs of Life
1970 Even Dwarfs Started Small
1972 Fata Morgana
1972 Aguirre, the Wrath of God
1974 The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
1976 Heart of Glass
1977 Stroszek
1979 Nosferatu the Vampyre
1979 Woyzeck
1982 Fitzcarraldo
1984 Where the Green Ants Dream
1987 Cobra Verde
1991 Scream of Stone
2001 Invincible
2005 The Wild Blue Yonder
2007 Rescue Dawn
2009 Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans
2009 My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done

Julio Medem:

1991 Vacas / Cows
1993 The Red Squirrel
1996 Earth
1998 Lovers of the Arctic Circle
2001 Sex and Lucia
2007 Caótica Ana / Chaotic Ana
2010 Room in Rome
2010 Moving the Arts

Aki Kaurismäki:

1983 Crime and Punishment
1985 Calamari Union
1986 Shadows in Paradise
1987 Hamlet Goes Business
1988 Ariel
1989 Likaiset kädet (Les mains sales), 1989 (production for Finnish TV)
1989 Leningrad Cowboys Go America
1990 The Match Factory Girl
1990 I Hired a Contract Killer
1992 La Vie de Bohème
1994 Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana
1994 Leningrad Cowboys Meet Moses
1996 Drifting Clouds
1999 Juha
2002 The Man Without a Past
2006 Lights in the Dusk
2011 Le Havre

Takeshi Kitano:

1989 Violent Cop
1990 Boiling Point
1991 A Scene at the Sea
1993 Sonatine
1995 Getting Any?
1996 Kids Return
1997 Fireworks in North America
1999 Kikujiro
2000 Brother
2002 Dolls
2003 Zatôichi
2005 Takeshis'
2007 Glory to the Filmmaker
2008 Achilles and the Tortoise
2010 Outrage
2012 Outrage 2

Otar Iosseliani:

1958 Akvarel (TV)
1959 Sapovnela
1961 April / Ap'rili
1964 Tudzhi
1966 Falling Leaves / Giorgobistve
1969 Georgian Ancient Songs / Dzveli qartuli simgera
1970 There Once was a Singing Blackbird / Iqo shashvi mgalobeli
1975 Pastorale / Past'orali
1982 Lettre d'un cinéaste
1983 Sept pièces pour cinéma noir et blanc
1983 Euzkadi été 1982 (TV)
1984 Favorites of the Moon / Les Favoris de la lune
1988 Un petit monastère en Toscane
1989 And Then There Was Light / Et la lumière fut
1992 Chasing Butterflies, aka Hunting Butterflies, aka The Butterfly Hunt / La Chasse aux papillons
1994 Seule, Georgie
1996 Brigands-Chapter VII / Brigands, chapitre VII
1999 Farewell, Home Sweet Home / Adieu, plancher des vaches!
2002 Monday Morning / Lundi matin
2006 Gardens in Autumn / Jardins en automne
2010 Chantrapas

Charles Chaplin:

1957 A King in New York
1967 A Countess from Hong Kong

Luis Buñuel:

1929 Un Chien Andalou / An Andalusian Dog
1930 L'Age d'Or / The Golden Age
1933 Las Hurdes: Tierra Sin Pan / Land Without Bread
1947 Gran Casino (aka En el viejo Tampico) / Magnificent Casino
1949 El Gran Calavera / The Great Madcap
1950 Los olvidados / The Forgotten (aka The Young and the Damned)
1951 Susana / Susana (aka The Devil and the Flesh)
1951 La hija del engaño / The Daughter of Deceit
1952 Subida al cielo / Ascent to Heaven (aka Mexican Bus Ride)
1952 Una mujer sin amor / A Woman Without Love
1953 El bruto / The Brute
1953 Él / This Strange Passion (aka Tourments)
1954 La ilusión viaja en tranvía / Illusion Travels by Streetcar
1954 Abismos de pasión (aka Cumbres Borrascosas) / Wuthering Heights
1954 The Adventures of Robinson
1955 Ensayo de un crimen / Rehearsal for a Crime (aka The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz)
1955 El río y la muerte / The River and Death
1956 Cela s'appelle l'aurore / That is the Dawn
1956 La mort en ce jardin / Death in the Garden (aka The Diamond Hunters)
1959 Nazarín
1959 La fièvre monte à El Pao / Fever Rises in El Pao (aka Republic of Sin)
1960 The Young One
1961 Viridiana
1962 El ángel exterminador / The Exterminating Angel
1964 Le journal d'une femme de chambre / The Diary of a Chambermaid
1965 Simón del desierto / Simon of the Desert
1967 Belle de jour
1969 La Voie Lactée / The Milky Way
1970 Tristana
1972 Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie / The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1974 Le fantôme de la liberté / The Phantom of Libertymin
1977 Cet obscur objet du désir / That Obscure Object of Desire

Sam Mendes:

1999 American Beauty
2002 Road to Perdition
2005 Jarhead
2006 Starter for 10
2007 Things We Lost in the Fire
2008 Revolutionary Road
2009 Away We Go
2012 Skyfall

Alejandro Jodorowsky:

1957 La cravate
1967 Fando y Lis
1970 El Topo
1973 The Holy Mountain
1978 Tusk
1989 Santa Sangre
1990 The Rainbow Thief
2012 Abel Cain or The Sons of El Topo
2012 The Dance of Reality

Dušan Makavejev:

1965 Man is Not a Bird
1967 Love Affair, or the Case of the Missing Switchboard Operator
1968 Innocence Unprotected
1971 W.R.: Mysteries of the Organism
1974 Sweet Movie
1981 Montenegro
1985 The Coca-Cola Kid
1988 Manifesto
1993 Gorilla Bathes at Noon
1994 Hole in the Soul
1996 Danish Girls Show Everything ("Dream" segment)

Miloš Forman:

1963 Kdyby ty muziky nebyly
1963 Konkurs / Audition
1964 Černý Petr / Black Peter
1964 Lásky jedné plavovlásky / Loves of a Blonde
1966 Dobře placená procházka / A well paid walk
1967 Hoří, má panenko / The Fireman's Ball
1971 Taking Off
1973 Visions of Eight
1975 One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
1979 Hair
1981 Ragtime
1984 Amadeus
1989 Valmont
1996 The People vs. Larry Flynt
1999 Man on the Moon
2006 Goya's Ghosts
2011 The Ghost of Munich

Roman Polanski:

1955 Zaczarowany rower / Bicycle
1955 Morderstwo / A Murderer
1957 Uśmiech zębiczny / A Toothful Smile
1957 Rozbijemy zabawę™ / Break Up the Dance
1958 Dwaj ludzie z szafą… / Two Men and a Wardrobe
1959 Lampa / The Lamp
1959 Gdy spadają anioły / When Angels Fall
1961 Le Gros et le maigre / The Fat and the Lean
1961 Ssaki / Mammals
1962 Nóż w wodzie / Knife in the Water
1964 Les plus belles escroqueries du monde / The Beautiful Swindlers (segment: "La rivière de diamants")
1965 Repulsion*
1966 Cul-de-sac
1967 The Fearless Vampire Killers or: Pardon Me, Madam, but Your Teeth Are in My Neck (Dance of the Vampires)
1968 Rosemary's Baby*
1971 Macbeth
1973 What? / Diary of Forbidden Dreams
1974 Chinatown
1976 Le Locataire / The Tenant*
1979 Tess
1986 Pirates
1988 Frantic
1992 Bitter Moon
1994 Death and the Maiden
1999 The Ninth Gate
2002 The Pianist
2005 Oliver Twist
2007 To Each His Own Cinema (segment "Cinéma erotique")
2010 The Ghost Writer
2011 Carnage
*These movies are part of his 'Apartment Trilogy'

Jan Švankmajer:

1988 Alice / Něco z Alenky (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll)
1994 Faust / Lekce Faust
1996 Conspirators of Pleasure / Spiklenci slasti
2000 Little Otik / Otesánek
2005 Lunacy / Šílení ("The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether" and "The Premature Burial" by Edgar Allan Poe)
2010 Surviving Life / Přežít svůj život
2015 Insects / Hmyz

Sergei Parajanov:

1954 Andriesh / Андриеш
1958 The First Lad (aka The Top Guy) / Первый парень
1961 Ukrainian Rhapsody / Украинская рапсодия
1962 Flower on the Stone / Цветок на камне
1964 Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors / Тени забытых предков
1968 The Color of Pomegranates (aka Sayat Nova) / Цвет граната
1984 The Legend of Suram Fortress / Легенда о Сурамской крепости
1988 Ashik Kerib / Ашик-Кериб

István Szabó:

1965 Age of Illusions
1966 Father
1970 Lovefilm
1973 25 Fireman Street
1977 Budapest Tales
1980 Confidence
1980 Der grüne Vogel
1981 Mephisto
1985 Colonel Redl
1988 Hanussen
1991 Meeting Venus
1991 Sweet Emma, Dear Böbe – Sketches, Nudes
1999 Sunshine
2001 Taking Sides
2002 Ten Minutes Older: The Cello (segment: "Ten Minutes After")
2003 The Colour of Happiness
2004 Being Julia
2006 Rokonok
2012 The Door

Wong Kar-wai:

1988 As Tears Go By
1990 Days of Being Wild
1994 Chungking Express
1994 Ashes of Time
1995 Fallen Angels
1997 Happy Together
2000 In the Mood for Love
2004 2046
2007 My Blueberry Nights

Peter Greenaway:

1980 The Falls
1982 The Draughtsman's Contract
1985 A Zed & Two Noughts
1987 The Belly of an Architect
1988 Drowning by Numbers
1989 The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover
1991 Prospero's Books
1993 The Baby of Macon
1996 The Pillow Book
1999 8 1/2 Women
2003 The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 1: The Moab Story
2003 The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea
2003 The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 3: From Sark to the Finish
2007 Nightwatching
2012 Goltzius and the Pelican Company
2014 Eisenstein in Guanajuato

Sofia Coppola:

1999 The Virgin Suicides
2003 Lost in Translation
2006 Marie Antoinette
2010 Somewhere
2013 The Bling Ring

Luc Besson:

1983 Le Dernier Combat
1985 Subway
1988 The Big Blue
1990 Nikita
1994 Leon
1997 The Fifth Element
1999 The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
2005 Angel-A
2006 Arthur and the Invisibles
2009 Arthur and the Revenge of Maltazard
2010 From Paris with Love
2010 The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec
2011 The Lady
2013 The Family
2014 Lucy

Quentin Tarantino:

1992 Reservoir Dogs
1994 Pulp Fiction
1994 Natural Born Killers (writer)
1995 Four Rooms
1997 Jackie Brown
2003 Kill Bill (Vol. I)
2004 Kill Bill (Vol. II)
2007 Grindhouse
2009 Inglourious Basterds
2012 Django Unchained
2015 The Hateful Eight

Jos Stelling:

1974 Mariken van Nieumeghen
1975 Elkerlyc
1977 Rembrandt fecit 1669
1981 The pretenders
1983 The Illusionist
1986 The Pointsman
1995 The Waiting Room
1995 The Flying Dutchman
1999 No Trains No Planes
2000 The Gas Station
2003 The Gallery
2007 Duska
2010 The Visit
2012 The Girl and Death

Spike Jonze:

1999 Being John Malkovich
2002 Adaptation
2009 Where the Wild Things Are
2010 I'm Here
2011 Scenes From the Suburbs
2011 Mourir Auprès De Toi

Robert Zemeckis:

1978 I Wanna Hold Your Hand
1980 Used Cars
1984 Romancing the Stone
1985 Back to the Future
1988 Who Framed Roger Rabbit
1989 Back to the Future Part II
1990 Back to the Future Part III
1992 Death Becomes Her
1994 Forrest Gump
1997 Contact
2000 What Lies Beneath
2004 The Polar Express
2007 Beowulf
2009 A Christmas Carol
2012 Flight
2015 The Walk

Sergio Leone:

1961 The Colossus of Rhodes / Il Colosso di Rodi
1964 A Fistful of Dollars / Per un pugno di dollari
1965 For a Few Dollars More
1966 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
1968 Once Upon a Time in the West
1971 Duck, You Sucker!(aka A Fistful of Dynamite or Once Upon a Time... the Revolution)
1984 Once Upon a Time in America

Roberto Benigni:

1983 You Upset Me / Tu mi turbi
1984 L'addio a Enrico Berlinguer
1985 Nothing Left To Do But Cry / Non ci resta che piangere
1988 The Little Devil / Il piccolo diavolo
1991 Johnny Toothpick / Johnny Stecchino
1994 The Monster / Il mostro
1997 Life Is Beautiful
2002 Pinocchio
2005 The Tiger and the Snow / La tigre e la neve

Fritz Lang:

1927 Metropolis
1928 Spione
1929 Frau im Mond
1934 Liliom
1950 American Guerrilla in the Philippines
1954 Human Desire
1955 Moonfleet
1956 While the City Sleeps
1956 Beyond a Reasonable Doubt
1959 Der Tiger von Eschnapur
1959 Das Indische Grabmal
1960 Die Tausend Augen des Dr. Mabuse

Orson Welles:

1941 Citizen Kane
1942 The Magnificent Ambersons
1946 The Stranger
1947 The Lady from Shanghai
1948 Macbeth
1949 The Third Man
1952 The Tragedy of Othello: The Moor of Venice
1955 Mr. Arkadin
1958 Touch of Evil
1967 Le Marin de Gibraltar
1968 The Immortal Story
1975 F for Fake

Coen brothers:

1984 Blood Simple
1987 Raising Arizona
1990 Miller's Crossing
1991 Barton Fink
1994 The Hudsucker Proxy
1996 Fargo
1998 The Big Lebowski
2000 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
2001 The Man Who Wasn't There
2003 Intolerable Cruelty
2004 The Ladykillers
2007 No Country for Old Men
2008 Burn After Reading
2009 A Serious Man
2010 True Grit

Stanley Kubrick:

1953 Fear and Desire
1955 Killer's Kiss
1956 The Killing
1957 Paths of Glory
1960 Spartacus
1962 Lolita
1964 Dr. Strangelove
1968 2001: A Space Odyssey
1971 A Clockwork Orange
1975 Barry Lyndon
1980 The Shining
1987 Full Metal Jacket
1999 Eyes Wide Shut

Tom Tykwer:

1993 Deadly Maria
1997 Winter Sleepers
1998 Run Lola Run / Lola rennt
2000 The Princess and the Warrior / Der Krieger und die Kaiserin
2002 Heaven
2004 Paris, je t'aime (Segment: Faubourg Saint-Denis)
2006 Perfume: The Story of a Murderer / Das Parfum
2009 The International
2009 Deutschland 09 (Segment: Feierlich reist)
2010 Three / Drei

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BOOKS
Jack Kerouac, Julio Cortasar, Sholem Aleichem, Gabriel Garci­a Marquez, Anton Chekhov, Dovlatov, Franz Kafka, Umberto Eco, Hunter Thompson, Oscar Wilde, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, Edgar Allan Poe, Ray Bradbury, Charles Bukowski, Jerome Salinger, Henry Miller, Ken Kesey, Ernest Hemingway, Vladimir Nabokov, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Mikhail Bulgakov, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Pushkin, Mikhail Lermontov, Nikolai Gogol, Lev Gumilyov, Milan Kundera, Guy de Maupassant, Antoine de Saint Exupery, Jean-Paul Sartre, Hermann Hesse, Mark Twain
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WORLD MUSIC
Africa, India, Balkans, France, Spain, Finland

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Snowboarding in the fog being a lame snowboarder in a new spot at the end of the dayHitchhiking all around Europe.Watching a sunrise in Africa.Driving a scooter in India and a car in Russia, riding a donkey, a camel and an elephant.Rafting in Bali.Snorkeling between Flores and Komodo islands, watching mantas.Making installations with electric light in the forest.Dyeing my hair all colours of the rainbow.

Dancing at a wedding in Pushkar.

Ziplining in Bohol.

Spending 25 hours on a Pelni boat in Indonesia.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can give you a free thai massage. Don't hesitate to ask, I need practice.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Andorra, Argentina, Austria, Bangladesh, Belarus, Belgium, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Chile, China, Colombia, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Laos, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Nepal, Netherlands, Norway, Palestine, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Singapore, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Thailand, Timor-Leste (East Timor), Tunisia, Turkey, Ukraine, United States, Uruguay, Vatican City State, Viet Nam

Countries I’ve Lived In

India, Indonesia, Russian Federation, Thailand

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