Trailer to a documentary i made about Berlin: A Berliner Summer Trailer: https://vimeo.com/154765646

CURRENT MISSION

travel to more film festivals, make my first feature film, write poetry and short stories

ABOUT ME

About me?? such a task.. well, my name is Yaron. I've been told I'm funny, but I wouldn't trust any of those people. I can cook up some nice Arabic, Israeli, Morrocon and Syrian dishes. I can also make an American favorite - macaroni and cheese with ketchup!
I am a film-maker/student.. and I love meeting people who love cinema and who want to argue about the best directors ever. I'm also a bookworm - from trashy sci-fi (Ender's Game, Perdido Street Station, Dragonlance, to Comic Books (Morpheus, Frank Miller, Gary Larson, Alan Moore), to serious literature - beckett, faulkner, celine, walter bejamin, michaux, thomas bernhard, dos passos, sebald, danilo kis, joyce, paul celan, pessoa, artaud, duras, kawabata, yukio mishima, kenzabaru oe, kobo abe, ryu murakami, akutagawa

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I donate couches. I use couches. I sleep on couches. I make films. I help others make films. I care. I shout. I laugh. I cry.

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

I've hosted lots of unofficial couch-surfers.. and have couch-surfed a good deal of my life.. the best way to meet new people.

Interests

Cinema, Books, Dance, Art, Beaches, Ideas, Madness, French cinema et lit, Japanese literature and cinema, meeting new couchsurfers, sailing, learning languages. Especially Russian.

Music, Movies, and Books

love 'em. I could make lists and lists and lists.. but not just lists.. sometimes books and films touch me so much that i cry because its too beautiful to stand... Tarkovski, Bresson, Coen Brothers, Pasolini, Haruki Murakami, Kawabata, Kurosawa (both), Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Nuri Bilge Celan, Bruno Dumont, Godard, PT Anderson, Desplechin, Jean Vigeo... Tom Waits, Mice Parade, Moderat, Einsturzende Neubauten, Matt Eliott, Arcade Fire, Bat for Lashes, Mahalia Jackson, Pixies, Arthur H, Gainsbourg, French Chanson, Pergolesi, Faure, Arvo Part, Gil Scott Heron, Johnny Cash, Morphine, Joy Division, Kendrick Lamar, Run the Jewels, Faulker, Beckett, Henri Michaux, Antonin Artaud, Claude Simon, Sebald, J. L. Borges, L. F Céline, Baudelaire, Flaubert, Dos Passos, Paul Celan, Bruno Schulz, Danilo Kiš, Alfred Döblin, Yoel Hoffman, Yasunari Kawabata, Kobo Abe, Yukio Mishima... so much so much.. but the great thing is that there's even MORE I don't know about

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

spent three months traveling through japan alone

Teach, Learn, Share

I think I can learn something from everyone.

Countries I’ve Visited

Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Latvia, Lithuania, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Palestine, Portugal, Russian Federation, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Vatican City State

Countries I’ve Lived In

Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Israel, Spain, United States

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