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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.

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevils_of_Sassoun

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_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.

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.

Mac Fridge wrote: ↑Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:54 pm side note (of Armenfilm symbolism) opening the second page...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sasuntsi_ ... 8statue%29

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.

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daredevils_of_Sassoun

→ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_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.

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.

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.

не болтай = don't babble

Artyom (Armen Dzhigarkhanyan) is a scientist who buries himself in his work after the woman he loves dies during the war.

He is informed of his sweetheart’s death by a young woman, and soon love blossoms between the lonely doctor and the emerging beauty.

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.

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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.

Born 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

"Road Movie" takes us on a bus trip through Yerevan.
Is it an exodus, a pilgrimage, or simply a tourist trip?
We don't exactly know where we are.
The music, the atmosphere, the faces give us a few indications that nevertheless remain very vague.
We are solicited by the experience of the journey.

The house is inhabited by characters from childhood, a happy childhood in a warm, sunny country.
Real memories alternate with invented ones.
Like in childhood things are not said but felt.

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...

a short film featuring a district in Yerevan, Armenia, where the legacy of the Soviet Union still occupies the minds and daily lives of the residents living in these huge unfinished monolithic structures

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.

A man falls in love with and marries a prostitute,

then has to defend her against malicious townsfolk.

these minute gestures stand in as grand statements of the human condition, akin to the films of Bas Jan Ader and Marcel Broodthaers.

despel mespel wrote: ↑Sat Jul 29, 2023 8:03 pm A PIECE OF SKY (Henrik Malyan, 1980) #ArmenCoMo

The film is about the Persian revolutionary movement of the peasants and townspeople against the dominance of the English tobacco monopoly.