Three females shaped my identity: grandmother, who was friends with the daughter of a shapeshifter; mom, who knows gypsie's dance; and Zinka, the parrot, who drowned in a fish tank.

Alongside people, my identity shaped places: the Kamchatka Peninsula and the 600 kilometers I walked through it in 2002; a three-month expedition to Western Tibet in 2004, where I was detained for attempting to illegally cross the Indian border while pioneering the Sutlej River; leaving my homeland and moving to Catalunya, wasn't that exotic as Kamchatka or Tibet, but immigration reformed me no less.

After people and places, the diseases are on the row: in 2018, I was diagnosed with clinical depression. I overlived it and created Soultrap—18 female portraits of depression survivors. It was the first documentary short I made, and it got a nomination for Best Experimental Short at L'HIFF, along with official selections for Violetta IFF, 19 Transterritorial de Cine Underground IFF, Ladies in Control IFF, Festival Fotogenia.

In 2020, I founded Female Films Forever, an international association of Russian-speaking women filmmakers.

Director and screenwriter of six short films. Producer of eight short films, including my own.

I'm of the disappearing ethnicity; I'm of post-imperial culture; I'm of the immigrant background—I am a natural talekeeper.