Directing, writing, and photography are my different approaches to the same enormous fascination with the question of what it means to be a human. Trough my work I expore the themes of identity and belonging.
I have lived as a foreigner for half of my life. Moving between Bulgaria, Spain, the United States, and Germany has required a constant reconstruction of the layers of identity needed to prove that I belong among those around me.
Preserving and protecting the memory of the essential rooted authenticity while one is trying to integrate into the world they have chosen to inhabit is the tension at the core of my work. It often imposes the refrain of the centuries old Shakespearean question, as well as some other, perhaps more aesthetic than philosophical, problems of construction and observation.
My previous film, Eraserhead in a Knitted Shopping Bag, can be found on CANAL+ and at several upcoming festivals.
As for me, you can find me somewhere between the pages of my next projects, No Birds on This Horizon (optioned) and MAR I O (in development). Two projects you'll be hearing a great deal more about in the near future.
A Selection of my Work
For me, cinema should be an authentic and human conversation between the image and the viewer. I believe that for a film to do justice to its story, the people telling it must also strive for authenticity and transparency themselves. That is why I look for collaborators who value these qualities, not only in storytelling, but also in the way they work together - serving the story rather than their own egos.
