[syndicate] Artavazd Peleshian at ZKM / May 09

[Aliette Guibert]

oh Great!

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Subject: [syndicate] Artavazd Peleshian at ZKM / May 09


> 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.
>
>


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