Category: Armenia

Film critic Siranush Galstyan reflects on Difference Screen at Naregatsi 8.7.2014 Film is always some private look, a view of life. And it means difference of views… During its existence cinematography became an archive of mankind that is fixing and keeping the human memory. What do we feel when see a photograph or a film, which represents a place that does not exist anymore or has changed so much that one can not recognize it? A Polish pharmacy that disappeared during war. We watched it on the screen with confused feelings. Pharmacy still exists in the film, on the screen but not in factual actuality… Among different films that were …

Siranush Galstyan / Difference Screen / Naregatsi Art Institute Read more »

Naregatsi Institute, Yerevan 8.7.2014 Naregatsi is a philanthropic non-profit organization pursuing the preservation and promotion of Armenian cultural heritage www.naregatsi.org/ The Institute was an excellent venue for presenting film and video in Yerevan. My thanks to events manager Victoria and programme director Eka for their warm welcome and to the Naregatsi photographer who documented the first screening. The theatre/cinema boasts a brand new screen and a rather old projector (HDMI will follow soon). Following Victoria Antabian’s initial introduction Mkrtich Tonoyan translated my synopsis of the Difference Screen project to an audience of 25 people including film critics Artsvi Bakhchinyan and Siranush Galstyan. Four young women film critics sat in the …

Armenia: 3 screenings Read more »