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Armenian documentaries
| 2010-09-12 15:00 | Cinema (Film studio)THE SEASONS
Artur Peleshyan, 1975, 29 min.
Artur Peleshyan was born in Leninakan in Soviet Armenia. He managed to be a simple laborer, then an engineer at a machine tool plant, and then left it. In 1963, he entered the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography - the ASIC.
He is one of the greatest living directors.
Peleshyan's films are black-and-white, consisting of documentary frames (archival or shot by Peleshyan), almost without speech, and completely without narration. They develop a method for the creation of cinema, owe nothing to any literary narrative or theatrical performance, inventing a "purely" cinematic language.
Thus, these films are not reducible to words, just as words can not convey the contents of a picture or a symphony.
"Seasons" creates a paradoxical wonder: it is simultaneously both magic and an experience of precise scientific explanation. "Discovery of the World" via cinematography.
CALENDAR
Atom Egoyan, 1993, 74 min.
Atom Egoyan is the most famous Canadian director of his generation. He is a Canadian director of Armenian origin, born in Cairo. His parents named him in honor of the nuclear power plant built in Egypt in 1960.
A. Egoyan:
"Cinematography is art in its pure form, demanding the utmost from the viewer, and demanding from the director deep immersion in the subject and dedication. It is precisely works in this category that depend directly on other genres of art - for example, painting - with the result being not so much narration, as a demonstration of tableaux vivants."
