Multi-Lingual woman on the Odessa Steps
When we arrived in Odessa’s port, one of the first things we headed to was the infamous steps of Potempkin. Pictures were taken, baby carriage shots were laughed about, and then everyone began to shuffle off to discover Odessa. Hanging behind, we, the film crew and Josh aka. Socalled met an incredible woman. She speaks Read on…
looking back: Socalled and Arkady Gendler
This is a short moment between Josh and one of the great klezmer singers of eastern Europe, Arkady Gendler. Josh is planning to write a song about the experience on the Dnieper Princess Klezmer Cruise with him, and also a preparing for an interview they will have for the passengers. With yiddish translation from Garry Read on…
Decompressing and Digitizing
After a harrowing 30 hour journey from Odessa to Kiev, to Frankfurt, to Toronto, and then crawling off the plane in Montreal, we all went home to our families to reflect, and decompress from the 2 week shoot. I am back at the NFB, on stable ground, in my office on Cote de Liesse Road Read on…
