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Sasuntsi Davit is a copper equestrian statue depicting David of Sassoun (Sasuntsi Davit) in Yerevan, Armenia. Erected by Yervand Kochar in 1959, it depicts the protagonist of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun.
David of Sassoun is the main hero of Armenia's national epic Daredevils of Sassoun, who drove Arab Egyptian invaders out of Armenia.
As an oral history, it dates from the 8th century.
CoMo No. 15: Armenia (July, 2023)
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side note (of Armenfilm symbolism) opening the second page...
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AUTUMN SUN (Bagrat Hovhannisyan, 1977) #ArmenCoMo
a viewer of this film spends one day in the Armenian countryside (as if painted by Pieter Breughel Sr)
following in the footsteps of a strong (outspoken) female character.
despite her initial (feminist) inclination, the heroine turns (with the approaching sunset) into a rural Ayn Rand.
or (in other words)
enough said (in a nutshell)Despite its initial feminist inclinations, Soviet Armenian cinema remained a realm of male-dominated narratives and visions that rarely put women in the driver seat.
The second feature by Andrei Tarkovsky’s one-time assistant, Bagrat Hovhannisyan, was a singular exception where the heroine not only speaks her mind, but methodically exposes the barbarity of the world constructed by men. Based on an autobiographical novella by the screenwriter Hrant Matevosyan, Autumn Sun follows a day in the life of Aghun, an acerbic matriarch in a tiny mountain village who prepares to visit her eldest son and his bride in the capital. Throughout the film, Aghun unleashes her exasperation at anyone who crosses her path, while ruminating on her struggles to survive, build a home, and make something of herself despite a loveless marriage and the stifling parochialism of rural community.
A director of rare sensitivity, Hovhannisyan imbues this minor episode with the breadth of a Chekhovian tragedy about broken dreams, the imprisoning obligations of family life, and, ultimately, the central role of women as custodians of social relations.
sevan's fishermen - n. dukor, gurgen marinosyan (1939) #ArmenCoMo
no subs but it's your basic soviet propaganda (though in armenia, therefore pretty) so it's easily interpretable good guy/baddie caricatures, with boats
though i am appreciating all the tough old ladies in these movies
no subs but it's your basic soviet propaganda (though in armenia, therefore pretty) so it's easily interpretable good guy/baddie caricatures, with boats
though i am appreciating all the tough old ladies in these movies
tangenitally armenian! the film is mayrig/mother d. henri verneuil (who was armenian!) and the title may give you some idea of how sentimental this film is... after the genocide at least. this is the director's family story as part of the diaspora in france
he was lucky to have both parents and two aunts surviving and what a sweet family group
yes that's omar el charif and claudia cardinale as his mom and dad. i'm glad he got to make this film covering 20 years of his family's history but i would not watch it again
i kind of love this statue and that i just watched an egyptian play an armenian on film. also historical sassoun is now in a part of turkey called https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_Province BATMAN PROVINCEMac Fridge wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:54 pm side note (of Armenfilm symbolism) opening the second page...
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Sasuntsi Davit is a copper equestrian statue depicting David of Sassoun (Sasuntsi Davit) in Yerevan, Armenia. Erected by Yervand Kochar in 1959, it depicts the protagonist of the Armenian national epic Daredevils of Sassoun.
David of Sassoun is the main hero of Armenia's national epic Daredevils of Sassoun, who drove Arab Egyptian invaders out of Armenia.
As an oral history, it dates from the 8th century.
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Due to the frequent employment of Armenians as chemists, goldsmiths, and pharmacists, many possessed the skills necessary for photography, in particular a thorough knowledge of the chemical processes used in development. During the late-nineteenth century, some of the principal studios in Constantinople were owned and operated by photographers of Armenian descent.
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hello, it's me!
this merry-go-round didn't stop yet!
HELLO, IT'S ME! (Frunze Dovlatyan, 1966) #ArmenCoMo
official synopses (of this film) usually say the following...
don't get fooled!
all you get is one sketchy tragic love story and then endless suspense (to first encounter the second heroine, one has to go through 100 minutes of the prevalently absurdist plot).
if you think, "i don't mind, witnessing a romance of an ephebophiliac physicist with a daddy-issues-girl is worth 100 minutes long suspense", i have to disappoint you.
there is no passion of this kind on display.
the juvenile heroine only drops a few tears while cutting the onion, and the aging physicist heartily embraces only his peer male friend.
but (despite the afore-mentioned) this film is not bringing only disappointment — it's delightful too!
a viewer (of this film) can find delight in getting familiar with Armenian astrophysics and with the charms of Mount Aragats...
this merry-go-round didn't stop yet!
Woo-whoop!
We're gonna take you up really really high, drop you really really low, and you'll go really really fast!
And we'll take you upside down NOT once, NOT twice, but ZERO times!
Please keep your heads, shoulders, knees, and toes inside the ride at all times.
It's a very safe ride, we've only had 6 injuries on it.
HELLO, IT'S ME! (Frunze Dovlatyan, 1966) #ArmenCoMo
official synopses (of this film) usually say the following...
based on the afore-mentioned, an aspiring viewer gets a false impression he/she is going to watch a "melodrama 2in1" (two love stories in a single film).
don't get fooled!
all you get is one sketchy tragic love story and then endless suspense (to first encounter the second heroine, one has to go through 100 minutes of the prevalently absurdist plot).
if you think, "i don't mind, witnessing a romance of an ephebophiliac physicist with a daddy-issues-girl is worth 100 minutes long suspense", i have to disappoint you.
there is no passion of this kind on display.
the juvenile heroine only drops a few tears while cutting the onion, and the aging physicist heartily embraces only his peer male friend.
but (despite the afore-mentioned) this film is not bringing only disappointment — it's delightful too!
a viewer (of this film) can find delight in getting familiar with Armenian astrophysics and with the charms of Mount Aragats...
The story of Artyom Manvelyan as presented in this film is based on the real-life story of Soviet Armenian physicist Artyom Alikhanyan, who paved the way for the field of nuclear physics in the USSR.
A member of the Soviet Academy of Sciences, he is regarded as the father of Armenian physics and was the two-time winner of the USSR State Prize and the Order of the Red Banner of Labor, as well as Lenin Prize.
→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artem_Alikhanian
In 1942, they initiated a scientific mission on Mount Aragats in order to search for the third (proton) component of cosmic rays. They found so-called narrow showers in cosmic rays and established the first evidence of the existence in cosmic rays of the particles with masses between that of a muon and proton.
After they founded a cosmic ray station on Aragats at an altitude of 3250 m, the two brothers participated in the foundation of the Armenian Academy of Sciences and established the Yerevan Physics Institute in 1943.
→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Aragats
Mount Aragats is an isolated four-peaked volcano massif in Armenia. Its northern summit, at 4,090 m (13,420 ft) above sea level, is the highest point of the Lesser Caucasus and Armenia.→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amberd
Amberd is a 10th-century fortress located 2,300 meters (7,500 ft) above sea level, on the slopes of Mount Aragats→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vahramashen_Church
An inscription on the inside lintel of the north portal to the church dates its completion to the year 1026.
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ROAD MOVIE (Nora Martirosyan, 2005) #ArmenCoMoBorn in Armenia, Nora Martirosyan earned a diploma in painting and drawing from the Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts before going to The Netherlands, where she studied in the Audiovisual Department at the Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. She then entered Le Fresnoy, Studio des Arts Contemporains, in Tourcoing (northern France) while pursuing studies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. She now lives and works in Montpellier, France. Her artistic production is clearly based in film and video, but it lies on the border between documentary and fiction
COURANT D’AIR (Nora Martirosyan, 2003) #ArmenCoMo
the mulberry tree - gennadi melkonyan (1980) #ArmenCoMo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLtp3tZ ... Vi&index=5
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I can't stand those movies with a Russian narrator overdubbed onto the orig. audio...
The opposite of 'reify' is... ?
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Lencho of the Apes wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2023 9:49 pm I can't stand those movies with a Russian narrator overdubbed onto the orig. audio...
yes, awful, especially when it's just the same man for every single character in the movie....but the short i posted above, that only has the babble over the credits, then it's armenian voices, no idea what use that is to anyone....
rue pouchkine - martine rousset (2017) #ArmenCoMo
here: https://lightcone.org/fr/film-10643-rue-pouchkine
here: https://lightcone.org/fr/film-10643-rue-pouchkine
komitas - don askarian (1989) #ArmenCoMo
i watched a movie! and it was gorgeous, like all other askarians
i watched a movie! and it was gorgeous, like all other askarians
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SOUR GRAPE (Bagrat Hovhannisyan, 1974) #ArmenCoMo
there are people...
... who describe this film as follows
but to tell the truth...Two years after receiving news of his father’s death in WWII a young boy continues to wait for trains from the front. The boy lives with his crippled uncle rather than with his mother, who has remarried and has another child. Then one day the father returns.
... it's a story of a crippled uncle (who is not really crippled — he is just hiding part of his leg by bending it back in his knee, the ankle tied tightly to a thigh, permanently wearing a long coat to cover up the deceit — grape stomping scene reveals the fraud) who forces his sister to remarry after she got pregnant while waiting (in vain) for her (presumedly dead) husband. when (presumedly dead) husband appears (out of the blue) at the local train station, patriarchal society blames the lady (presumedly remarried widow) for biandry (opposite of bigamy). how many husbands the poor heroine accumulated this way (due to an erroneous bureaucracy of the Soviet state, sending haphazardly false notices of death to random wives of soldiers) till the last shot of WW2 we can only speculate?!?!?! three (triandry)? four (tetrandry)?? five (pentandry)??? more (polyandry)???????
watch for yourself and make a guess!
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HEAD (Hamlet Hovsepian, 1975) #ArmenCoMo
https://youtu.be/PIythgf1TZ4these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.
dark is the night - boris barnet / yerevan film studio (1945) #ArmenCoMo
expressive war propaganda with boris touches (and acting role) featuring a girl traumatised into head-trembling idiocy & filmed in real ruins
expressive war propaganda with boris touches (and acting role) featuring a girl traumatised into head-trembling idiocy & filmed in real ruins
someone did a website of fashion inspired by armenian films: https://hay-hay.co/blogs/blog/armenfilm-inspiration
this is the selection for a piece of sky
lesson of soviet language - artashes hay-artyan (1941) #ArmenCoMo
wholesome maidens saving the world from fascists
wholesome maidens saving the world from fascists
blood against blood - gurgen gabrielyan, aram samvelyan (1941) #ArmenCoMo
https://kinodaran.com/movie/516
innocent boys saving the world from fascists
https://kinodaran.com/movie/516
innocent boys saving the world from fascists
the daughter - hamo bek-nazaryan (1942) #ArmenCoMo
https://kinodaran.com/movie/453
innocent children orphaned by fascists learn to sing patriotic songs
https://kinodaran.com/movie/453
innocent children orphaned by fascists learn to sing patriotic songs
khaspush - hamo bek-nazaryan (1928) #ArmenCoMo
The film is about the Persian revolutionary movement of the peasants and townspeople against the dominance of the English tobacco monopoly.
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