CURRENT MISSION

Shoot our first feature film, hold our first exhibition, travel and meet inspiring people and places, teach and learn

ABOUT ME

We met and fell in love in Rome. Idan was studying cinema and arts for a few years in Bologna University and then moved to Rome to work on a documentary feature film, as an assistant director. Emanuele completed his degree in literature and afterwards dedicated himself completely to his biggest passion, photography (www.emanueletorti.it). We lived in Israel for a couple of years and now we live once more in the Eternal city.

PHILOSOPHY

We are strong believers of the well known motto: live and let live. Simple and obliged.

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

We partecipate in local events, propose things on groups, meet people for walk-talk-eat-drink, host and surf, teach and learn, travel and share

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Positive! +++

Interests

Cinema, photography, visual arts, galleries, music, concerts, going out with friends, eating in and out, learning languages, laughing, animals, literature, architecture, nature, traveling, new experiences, some sports like bikes, rollerblading, volleyball, swimming, writing

• animals
• arts
• writing
• literature
• architecture
• photography
• documentaries
• film making
• concerts
• drinking
• movies
• traveling
• socializing
• music
• sports
• volleyball
• swimming
• languages
• visual arts

Music, Movies, and Books

Cinema: a lot. 40s-50s Hollywood (Magnificent Ambersons, Rope, 12 Angry Men), european dramatic cinema (Vigo, Renoir, Bresson, Makavejev, Pasolini, Fassbinder, Leigh), american films of the 70s (Dog Day Afternoon, Annie Hall), far east directors (Kurasawa, Tsai Ming Liang, Wong Kar Wai), animation (Miyazaki, early WB), musicals (Funny Girl, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Phantom of the Paradise), new canadian cinema (Denys Arcand, Guy Maddin), new american cinema (Little Children, Rachel Getting Married, Juno, Fox searchlight films) and tv (Dexter, The Sopranos, Six feet under, Weeds, Modern Family).

Music: Various and eclectic... it goes from Kate Bush to Verdi, from Punk to Barbra Streisand, 80s music to Brassens, musicals to Zero7.

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Room number 134 in Hermitage museum, what a shiver...

Teach, Learn, Share

We can teach the languages we speak, photography and filmmaking, creative writing.

We would love to learn to play music and to learn music theory.

We love exchanging, sharing, teaching and learning. We are strong believes in bartering as a social/economical alternative.

Countries I’ve Visited

Russian Federation

Countries I’ve Lived In

Germany, Israel, Italy, United Kingdom