Two Places at the Same Time

Photo by Alina Kisina, Subitle Film Festival, Kilkenny, 2019.

This might look like a staged fashion shoot in a pretend Irish bar with a guy having a pretend drink. Only this IS an Irish bar and he IS having a drink and I just happen to be around with my camera. And the guy just happens to be a Ukrainian actor Aleksandr Kuznetsov.

In a few moments he’s going to get up, pick up a guitar and sing one of the most beautiful songs ever, from an old Soviet cartoon, that will bring me right back to the living room in Far East Russia where I’m standing on a warm carpet and singing along to my record player as passionately as a 5 year old is capable of, so that the neighbours have to call and ask me to turn it down 🙈😆

Turns out you can be in two places at the same time.

And here is the song Луч Солнца Золотого