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RASIKA

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About Me

I was born and raised in Sri Lanka. I guess I could say I grow up in and around the cinema. It's because my fathers' struggle to become a film maker. Well he did become a film Director, but never succeed in financially. So my mothers advice was to me is "do not make the same mistake your father did" Which means don't even think about going to film school.When I was a teenager I was addicted to literature more than anything else. Loved reading I never had many chance to go to the cinema. I have tried many things before I start film school. I was in a theater group for almost three years as a stage manager back in Colombo, Sri Lanka. While I was working in theater I start watching films. There wasn't many places in Colombo go and see the good movies. I use to go to weekend movie nights on british council, Goethe institute and french cultural center. My favorite director of all the time is Werner R. Fussbinder. I think when it's comes to my own work I was very influence by him.Then I moved to USA as a green card lottery winner 2001, started film school and graduated in December 2005. In film school I majored Cinematography. And I also studied painting and drawing as miner. Every film of mine is very autobiographical. I like making films, not necessarily to make money. For me it's the my media for express myself.

My Interests

Movies:

Fanny and Alexander , Autumn Sonata, The Serpent's Egg, The Passion of Anna, Persona, Wild Strawberries, Fanny and Alexander, Querelle, Lola, Lili Marleen, The Marriage of Maria Braun, Satan's Brew, Fear of Fear, Ali: Fear Eats the Soul, The City Tramp, The Little Chaos, The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant, Ginger and Fred, Fellini's Casanova, Juliet of the Spirits, Federico Fellini's 8½ ,Nights of Cabiria, Variety Lights, A Pure Formality, The Pianist, The Ninth Gate, Death and the Maiden, Chinatown, Roman Polanski 's Macbeth, Rosemary's Baby, Repulsion, *****Knife in the Water, Garten der Finzi Contini, Bicycle Thieve, Michelangelo Antonioni,s Blow-Up, Beyond the Clouds, , La Notte, The Last Metro, The Story of Adele H, Bed &; Board, Stolen Kisses, Soft Skin, The 400 Blows, Grizzly Man, Invincible, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu, Werner Herzog's Nosferatu the Vampyre, Heart of Glass, The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Even Dwarfs Started Small, The Pillow Book, The Cook the Thief His Wife &; Her Lover, The Draughtsman's Contract, Ran, Derusu Uzara ,Derusu Uzara , Yojimbo , Akira Kurosawa's Macbeth, Seven Samurai, Drunken Angel, Nostalghia, The Mirror, Andrei Rublev, My Name Is Ivan, Solaris , Russian Ark, Mother and Son, Agantuk, Nayak: The Hero, The World of Apu, Jalsaghar:The Music Room, Aparajito , Pather Panchali, *****The Hairdresser's Husband, Honey for Oshun, Lucía, Doctor Zhivago , Lawrence of Arabia, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Days of Heaven, Badlands , The Thin Red Line, A Clockwork Orange, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Lolita, Full Metal Jacket, The Saddest Music in the World, Dracula: Pages from a Virgin's Diary Careful, Piano, ....

Books:

War and Peace, The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Short Stories, The House of the Spirits, Daughter of Fortune, *****Eva Luna , Of Love and Shadows , The Stories of Eva Luna , Crime and Punishment, Memoirs from the House of the Dead ,Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cities, Love in the Time of Cholera, The Picture of Dorian Gray The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Master and Magarita, The Cherry Orchard , Siddhartha, THE OLD MAN AND THE SEA, Sun Also Rises, Lolita, Lady Chatterly's Lover, Women in Love, Demian, DOKTOR ZHIVAGO, The Childhood of Maxim Gorky , Mother , Autobiography of Maxim Gorky 2001: A Space Odyssey , 2061: Odyssey Three, 2010: Odyssey Two, The Stranger by Albert Camus

Heroes:

Werner R. Fussbinder, Ingmar Bergman, Roman Polanski,Michelangelo Antonioni, Vittorio De Sica, François Truffaut, Werner Herzog, Peter Greenaway, Akira Kurosawa, Andrei Tarkovsky, Aleksandr Sokurov, Satyajit Ray, Humberto Solás, Guy Maddin