Artavazd Peleshian at ZKM / May 09

[claudia westermann]

Homage to Artavazd Peleshian

Film screening

Sun 09 May 2004

ZKM-Media Theater | 7.30 pm | ¤ 4,50/2,50


Homage to... is the title the ZKM | Film Institut 
has given to a series of retrospectives devoted 
to prominent figures in the world of the cinema.

The Armenian director Artavazd Peleshian (b. 1938 
in Leninakan) ranks as the last great innovator 
in the field of cinema montage. Jean-Luc Godard 
regards him as the most important contemporary 
film-maker and Francis Ford Coppola has 
unreserved admiration for him. His epoch-making 
oeuvre spanning a period of 40 years comprises 
just 12 films of short to medium length, all of 
which consist only of music and pictures. If a 
film without actors is the definition of a 
documentary film in the broadest sense of the 
word, Peleshian's works have given this genre its 
supreme artistic expression.

he director will be present for the showing of 
nine of his films, which in view of the fact that 
the other three have been lost is tantamount to a 
complete retrospective. It is the first to be 
staged in the German-speaking countries. An 
introduction will be given by Andrei Ujica.