I am currently a film production student at Concordia University in Montreal, am starting to make films, write stories and do socially engaged photography projects. For last 5 years I've been working at Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary festival (Kyiv), I work in distance now.
I do some teaching of Ukranian language and literature for kids in Montreal.
I adore arts and cinema in particular, and I believe I am always an interesting person to talk to. I have hundreds of stories to tell, and I am also a good listener.
Open, talkative, honest.
I also love dancing. I prefer swing or blues music, or cumbia to dance with, some electronic music too. That's in brief, friends.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

Unfortunately, I can't host anyone one, because I live in a tiny studio apartment. I'm waiting for better times.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Till this moment I've had only very good experience exept one situation in Paris in 2011. When I came to one guy who agreed to host me and my friend, he was naked, red and wet and he didn't want to put any clothes on. He spoke very bad and cause we could see only his red and perspiring head sticking out of doors we decided that he's probably sick. And we didn't stay with him of course and went to the street without money and place to stay. Fortunately another couchsurfer helped us soon.I tried to find his profile soon after this situation happened but he deleted his profile immediately. Usually I trust people whome I meet here on couchsurfing, but sometimes life prepares bad surprises.

Interests

Art, Cultural studies, Film Studies, history of photography and moving image, cinema, documentaries, filmmaking, art censorship, politics of images, media, philosophy, fashion, politics of fashion, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, art activism, performance art, swing dance (boogie-woogie, lindy-hop), vintage photography, traditional music, avangard music, jazz, gospel, design, languages, Latin.

• arts
• literature
• performing arts
• design
• fashion
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• festivals
• dancing
• cumbia
• human rights
• cooking
• clothing
• politics
• movies
• traveling
• music
• electronic music
• jazz
• blues
• communications
• cultural studies
• history
• languages

Music, Movies, and Books

Music: jazz, blues, gospel, world ethnomusic, postpunk, avantguard, classical music.

Movies, fiction: all Michael Haneke, Ingmar Bergman, Kira Muratova, Christian Mangiu, Karl Dreyer... "4 months, 3 weeks, 2 days" and "Beyond the Hills" by Christian Mangiu, "Cache" and "The Piano Teacher" by Haneke," "Dog Day Afternoon" by Sidney Lumet, "Alien" by Ridley Scott, "Aliens" by James Cameron, "Astenicheskiy sindrom" by Kira Muratova, "Tirez sur le pianiste" by François Truffaut etc.
Documentaries: Wernor Herzog, Audrius Stonys, Jonas Mekas, Michael Glavogger, and many others young directors.

Books: Sarte, Camus, Lorka, Berdyaev, Mariengof, Dostoyevsky, Ezra Paund, Jonesko, Emil Cioran, Jacques Prevert, Nikolaj Gogol etc

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

2 weeks of archeologiocal field work with my friends in a little beautiful village in Ukraine, 2-month travel with my partner crossing all Canada, cherry picking work in BC... But all this stuff sucks in comparison with the experince being in love with other human being.

Teach, Learn, Share

I can teach you some Ukrainian or Russian and how to cook traditional Ukrainian cuisine, how to dance boogie or lindy, I can recommend you hundreds of nice documentaries, and also share my knowledge in art and cinema history.

Countries I’ve Visited

Albania, Canada, Cuba, France, Georgia, Germany, Kosovo, Poland, Russian Federation, Turkey, United States

Countries I’ve Lived In

Canada, Ukraine