Julia Loktev

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558 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 7 Feb

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Fresh Air · Following independent journalists fighting for free press in Russia · 5 Feb 2026 podcast

And so, you know, the second half of my growing up was really in this smallish Colorado town.

So, I had gone to film school thinking I wanted to make fiction and I always kind of really think of myself in that way and have accidentally, it seems, made two documentaries now.

But the first one...

You know, when I started making the film, my dad, he was crossing the street between two garage sales and got hit by a car on April Fool's Day and ended up having severe brain damage for many years.

And when I started making it, he was already in that state for eight years.

And so it wasn't a state that changed a lot.

Like when I say my dad was hit by a car, people say, did he live or die?

And the only answer I can come up with is kind of neither.

You know, he became suspended in this state and it challenged my ideas of what is the worst thing that could happen, you know, because we are really used to these stories that are either bad

tragic death or a miraculous recovery and that kind of makes sense and this was neither this was a kind of ongoing existence where very little changed from day to day and I also you know it just challenged every single idea of what it meant to be human to be alive what one can expect in life for me to really look at this how do you it's not something most of us expect to happen you know and yet it can happen

Oh my God, I probably have to go to therapy for this.

I have no idea.

It is something, at some point, I remember some critic pointed this out and they're like, all of your films seem to hinge on this, you know, pivotal moment that divides the before from the after.

And I was like, oh yeah, I guess that's true.

You know, it's not something I have consciously done, but it's absolutely, it's kind of strange, isn't it?

Mm-hmm.

Oh, it was all happening so fast.

You know, my bank card stopped working.

My credit card stopped working.

It was like day by day Russia was getting cut off from the world.

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