(27 May 2025)
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New York City – 19 May 2025
1. Establishing shot of rescued hostage Andrei Kozlov arranging his brushes
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrei Kozlov, rescued Hamas hostage:
“My grandmother, she was telling me that she has some guardian angel above her, like somewhere. He kept her alive in war camps, he kept her alive during her life, and she’s been in really bad situations. And she is sure that she has a guardian angel. So when I was there, I was asking the same guardian angel to look after me. Maybe if you rescue my grandmother, maybe you also can do something for me, please. And we came back, we were rescued on June 8th and her birthday on June 9th. So I decided not to wait this day to call her that I’m okay. And she’s like, wow, Andrei, this is the best gift ever for all her life.”
3. Wide of Kozlov being interviewed
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrei Kozlov, rescued Hamas hostage:
“I cried a few times in Gaza. I don’t know how much, like 15, 20 times. Not every day. But all these emotions that they were inside. It was the first time when I let them get out from my body to feel some relief, relief you call it, and I just fell on my knees and I was like, wow, this is something that, again, it will never happen. This is a unique moment when you appreciate this life.”
5. One of Kozlov’s paintings on display that he called “The gift”
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrei Kozlov, rescued Hamas hostage:
“I started in September. August, yeah, August, September, something like that in Tel Aviv. I understood that I’m already OK to do something else. I don’t need to spend time recovering. I’m OK, so I can do something else. And in the beginning, it was just for myself. I didn’t plan to show this. I didn’t plan to be in the art world, just for myself. In LA also, I didn’t think about it. It was just art therapy for me.”
7. One of Kozlov’s paintings on display that shows where he was kept in the beginning that he called “One God”
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrei Kozlov, rescued Hamas hostage:
“I don’t think that I will paint a lot of about Gaza, like maybe a few more, just to tell the craziest stories that are inside of these eight months. And then I will move to something more colorful, more happy. I don’t know. I have some thoughts what will be next, but I’ll think about it for another couple of months.”
9. One of Kozlov’s paintings on display that he called “The other part of the mirror”
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrei Kozlov, rescued Hamas hostage:
“It’s a good way how to, how to become somebody else. Not just former hostage who spent eight months in Gaza and was rescued. I didn’t want to be always in this status, you know. It’s not something that I want."
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrei Kozlov, rescued Hamas hostage (in front of painting):
“This one I decided to call the gift. It’s all of the suffering I felt, it’s all suffering that every hostage felt. Survivors, families, people who were affected by the war. And some of them, they’re not able to control themselves. So they’re just locked. And somebody who is much more powerful than everybody is just holding this world."
12. Kozlov hanging his painting “The other part of the mirror”
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Andrei Kozlov, rescued Hamas hostage (in front of painting):
“So it’s two different parts of the mirror, two different worlds when some of us, we live one of the best lives and we don’t care. And some of the people, they don’t have even one per cent of what some people in pink world have.”
14. Zoom in of sign on wall reading “Andrei Kozlov, “So real surreal””
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