Producing culture while the world burns

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit yasha.substack.comWe have a nice morning conversation. We talk about Yasha’s blossoming music career (and our plans to start a band). We discuss Evgenia’s attendance of a screening of From Ground Zero, an anthology of short films shot in Gaza this year that’ll be competing in the Oscars. We talk about the blurry lines between fiction and nonfiction and people’s drive to be creative even in the most bleak situations. Then we trash talk the documentary industry and gossip about the doc-oriented MFA program Evgenia attended that was run by a guy married into the Netanyahu family. We also talk about how immigration gives you cultural super powers…and how it helped Mike Nichols make great comedies. And then Evgenia reminisces about how living in America helped her respect her own culture. There’s more in there…a lot more.—The RussiansOn the ep we mention Evgenia’s thesis film Changemaker. We talked about the two songs I released last month: A Devious God and Murder on the Feed. And From Ground Zero, the film shot in Gaza during the genocide…