Don Askarian – Ararat: 14 Views (2007)
Synopsis :A series of controlled improvisations. They focus on the holy Armenian mountain Ararat that is out of reach in Turkey. The filmmaker looks at his mountain as a poet, a dancer, a painter. And...
View ArticleFrunze Dovlatyan – Barev, yes em AKA Hello, That’s Me! (1966)
Synopsis:Artyom Manvelyan is a famous physicist and founder of a cosmology laboratory in Aragats. With loyalty and gentleness, he keeps the memories of the World War period, lost love and his friends....
View ArticleHamlet Hovsepian – Glukh AKA Head (1975)
Staggeringly simple films: a man itching his back, a man thinking, a man yawning, but like the works of Samuel Beckett, these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin...
View ArticleHamlet Hovsepian – Untitled (1976)
Quote:“Rotation around a rock” / during socialism / the passage of days and decades came to resemble one another, that was our life. Monotonous life chases after us and we are chasing after it.”...
View ArticleHamlet Hovsepian – Kos AKA Itch (1975)
Quote:Statement by Hamlet Hovsepian regarding the films:“”What have been presented are totally unrelated events (material) at the outset. The relation between them portrays neither pleasant nor...
View ArticleArman Manaryan – Heghnar aghbyur AKA Heghnar Spring (1971)
Quote:The movie goes back to the beginning of the century. After the death of his unfaithful wife Heghnar, Master Mkrtich builds an unusual spring in her honour. Its water stops flowing as soon as a...
View ArticleDon Askarian – Komitas (1989)
The film is dedicated to the Armenian monk and genius composer Komitas, and the 2 million victims on his people in Turkey in 1915. The final 20 years of Komitas life were spent in various mental...
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