#Don Askarian

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Avetik (1992, dir. Don Askarian)

#13/100 #avetik #don askarian #100

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Avetik (1992)

#sheep #armenian cinema #Don Askarian

[dukhoiada]

Komitas (Կոմիտաս), Don Askarian, 1989

#don askarian #komitas #cinema #armenia

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#դոն ասկարյան #ավետիք #avetik #don askarian #armenian film #culture of armenia #drama #surrealism #immense beauty #memorable picture #visual masterpiece #visual poem #armenian-born director #the cinema of armenia #armenian cinema #room #interior #atmospheric #cosy room

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1. LIKELY MINE, Gelare Khoshgozaran (2020) 2. The Camel Race, Isabelle Carbonell (2019) 3. One Thousand and One Attempts to Be an Ocean, Yuyan Wang (2021) 4. Nike X and My Dead Hand, Nina Sarnelle (2019) 5. Ornette: Made in America, Shirley Clarke (1985) 6. Chameleon Street, Wendell B. Harris, Jr. (1989) 7. Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, Elio Petri  (1970) 8. La vie des morts, Arnaud Desplechin (1991) 9. Կոմիտաս (Komitas), Don Askarian (1989) 10. Les mains négatives (Negative Hands), Marguerite Duras (1978)

[sacredwhores]

Don Askarian - Komitas (1988)

#film #don askarian #komitas #Կոմիտաս #buddha #mohammed #shakespeare #1988 #mine

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#Avetik #1992 #Don Askarian #Film #Imagery

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#Don Askarian

[genshis-balkans]

avetik (1992) komitas (1989)

#don askarian #berlin #death

[vagabondedlife]

Avetik - Don Askarian

#movie

[hinoenmayokai]

Avetik, Don Askarian, 1992

#hinomov

[shiningwizard]

Avetik (Don Askarian, 1992)

An Armenian film director exiled in Germany. Film is burned, time is burned, dead sheep are hacked out from a frozen lake, an ancient king of Armenia comes over to talk, unaware the plight his people have gone through in years intervening. Still alive sheep are rescued from a cemetery crumbling at the arrival of tanks and a military hazmat team, and then breastfed. He projects silent footage of the incredible destruction of the 1988 earthquake as his colleague turns on non-incidental German news. A poet walks around human figures posing from statues and frescos. A sister sets fire to her brother’s living room reminding him of their father’s murder. The director takes a drive. People with frescos and tombstones saddled to their backs walk over rubble and waste.

A vital continuation of Armenian art and Armenian life. The director’s place in that. I have a feeling this would be more decipherable and impactful the better someone is across Armenian history and art. But what does full comprehension of the details matter when the urgency of loss, displacement and open wounds is thrown so cogently?

#ավետիք #avetik #last movie i saw #B+

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#Komitas #Don Askarian #Կոմիտաս #Դոն Ասկարյան #1989 #Biopic #Eberhard Geick #Γιώργος Αρβανίτης #Armenian-born director #Armenian film #culture of Armenia #Armenian cinema #The cinema of Armenia #visual poem #visual masterpiece #memorable pictures #immense beauty #Contemplation #nature #rain

[begonedullcare]

from Francesco Casetti’s The Lumière Galaxy; from Don Askarian’s Avetik; a draft.

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Avetik (1992) Don Askarian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trgfFkLbPdU 

[sacredwhores]

Don Askarian - Avetik (1992)

#film #don askarian #avetik #Ավետիք #1992 #mine