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My Undesirable Friends: Part II -- Exile: “I'm always interested in the after... How do you get up the next morning? How do you keep going? And how do you keep telling the truth?”
In this vHopeful Conversation, I welcome back award-winning filmmaker Julia Loktev, my first returning guest, to talk about My Undesirable Friends: Part II — Exile. She describes shooting alone on an iPhone while editing Part I with Michael Taylor, and why she treats her subjects like actors giving the performance of their lives. She recalls the hours after February 24, 2022, when the young Russian journalists she was filming caught whatever flights they could to Istanbul and found themselves "thrown to the winds." She explains how exile suspends time, and why the "after" interests her more…
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