Santa Monica, Where the Mountains Meet the Sea, 1959

Part 1

Part 2

Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky LA Screenings

Here's the full list of screenings. Dima, the director, will be there if you wanna talk about film and meet a cool guy!

Nonna in her 3D shades after seeing Avatar for the second time (iPhone)

filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky & artist Gabriela Anastasio: Cubiculum

I'm so proud of my filmmaker Dima, and I can't wait to see his upcoming documentary on Andrei Tarkovsky!

(Dima, when should I expect my autographed copy in the mail?)

Dmitry Trakovsky

This is my former roommate, Dima. We went to Saint Anthony’s Basilica in Padua on the patron saint's holiday so he could get footage for his documentary on Andrei Tarkovsky, a Russian director who resided and worked in Italy. We were separated during the procession, and while I was alone among all those people, I stopped feeling alone. I had the opportunity to observe the community in its annual religious conformity to tradition – from the inside. I had been looking for real, non-architectural signs of Catholicism for a long time, and I found them. As far as architecture, though, you can see the distorted basilica in the man’s sunglasses.