Hrag Vartanian

Interesting tidbits from Armenian-land:

Russian Armenian director Anna Melikyan is showing MERMAID (RUSALKA) at Sundance. It is “The fanciful tale of an introverted little girl who grows up believing she has the power to make wishes come true. She must reconcile this belief with reality when, as a young woman, she journeys to Moscow and grapples [...]

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Whenever Atom Egoyan zooms his video camera onto something, you know the product can be at times hermeneutic, but more often wonderfully lucid.
This year, the Armenian Canadian filmmaker has joined with Turkish artist, Kutlag Ataman, to create a multimedia installation slated to premier this Friday in Toronto as part of the new Luminato festival.
Based on [...]

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I missed my chance to see Garine Torossian’s newest film, Stone Touch Time, on MoMA’s big screen as part of the Canadian film festival last March, but fortunately I caught the flick in Toronto as part of the HotDocs festival in April.
I wanted to chime in about a filmmaker that is a long-time friend and [...]

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While I mentioned a few weeks ago that Arshile Gorky was being celebrated with two major exhibits in Paris, France, I didn’t realize that Canadian cinema is also being showcased in the French capital.
Not only is Canadian filmmaker Atom Egoyan being honored with a full retrospective at the Georges Pompidou Center (link), but Winnipeg filmmaker [...]

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City Hall Park in downtown Manhattan is one of the city’s secret jewels. Fortunately, I pass by the park a few times a month because of my gym and have the pleasure of enjoying the sculpture exhibitions by some of the world’s greatest sculptors.
This year, Alexander Calder’s elegant forms touched down in the midst [...]

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