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Martiros Vartanov

Historia

When Tarkovsky inscribed and sent his child's drawing to the imprisoned Paradjanov, who annotated and forwarded it to the blacklisted Vartanov for his newborn son Martiros, his journey in arts began. He escaped to Hollywood and graduated from UCLA where he made his first film, entitled The Last Film, which was released by Criterion. He has also served as a juror and a curator at festivals in Beverly Hills, Busan and DOC LA, and worked on the restoration of the masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates selected for Festival de Cannes.

Películas

The Last Film

Director

A film about a film where a film was made, but the lead actress vanished from celluloid.

Parajanov: The Last Spring

Screenplay

Made in wartime and edited in candlelight, Mikhail Vartanov's rarely-seen masterpiece tells about his friendship with the genius Sergei Parajanov who was imprisoned by KGB "at the peak of his artistic power". Vartanov takes us back with the scenes from his censored 1969 film The Color of Armenian Land where Paradjanov is at work on his suppressed chef-d'oeuvre The Color of Pomegranates - widely regarded as one of the greatest films of all time - and contrasts it with the shocking request Parajanov sent him in unpublished 1974 letters from the Soviet prisons. Vartanov's camera documents Parajanov's striking last day at work in 1990 during the making of the unfinished Confession. A monumental wordless montage - the entire sixth reel - concludes Vartanov's acclaimed documentary, which, despite the prohibitive conditions it was created in, won the admiration of many of cinema's greatest artists, including Francis Ford Coppola and Martin Scorsese.

El color de la granada

Thanks

Biografía del trovador y poeta armenio del siglo XVIII Sayat Nova. En lugar de hacer una narración lineal, el director se encarga de realizar una serie de cuadros vivientes que representan episodios importantes de la vida del poeta en clave simbólica: su infancia, su juventud, su entrada a un monasterio, o su enfrentamiento con el ángel de la muerte. Estos capítulos están desarrollados a partir de fragmentos de sus obras, los cuales aparecen en intertítulos o se escuchan mediante una voz en off.