Tender is the Night by Galina Toktalieva I intend to shoot number of scenes for this movie using hidden camera or reportage style. What attracts me to amateur films made in this way is their naïve sincerity and originality, which compensates lack of technical proficiency. This elusive freshness of vision may fade away in more [...]
Red Poppies of Chu Valley by Galina Toktalieva This is the story of Kyrgyz girl who in turbulent time left her impoverished country for West Europe and came through disastrous experiences of emigration escaping grip of sex trade emissaries – to become eventually professional photographer and American world agency reporter. (The view of red poppies [...]
By Galina Toktalieva Among other dreams for paranormal powers, I had dream of myself splitting in two and keeping company of my duplicate. I envisioned complete understanding between those two – the sort of intimacy identical twins have. Looking around, I knew I would stay inexplicable for ever. It is rare that friends have similar [...]
by Galina Toktalieva To make our lessons more enjoyable, young teacher replacing an older one, urged us to talk in German about personal ambitions, stimulating our activity by patient approach of recently baked pedagogue and by genuine curiosity that glowed at her fresh innocent face. Poor German and lack of imagination may seem connected, if [...]
By Galina Toktalieva Dear Vlad, Thanks for your concerns and for being always there for me. Now after 10 years of relapse we can correspond again, as before, when we were Moscow students. In your last letter you write that your girlfriend feels so upset by illness of her dog that she stopped painting, and [...]
By Galina Toktalieva For thousands of years living without electricity and toothpaste, our forefathers, free of matrimonial restraints forced later by patriarchate, used to choose intimate partner by smell, as many mammals do. Probably the ability of humans to perceive odors partly degenerated with time. But even now in epoch of commercial odorants and perfumes, [...]
