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Cinema Of Armenia
The cinema of Armenia was established on 16 April 1923, when the Armenian State Committee of Cinema was established by government decree. The National Cinema Center of Armenia (NCAA), founded in 2006, is the governing body of film and cinema in Armenia. The NCAA preserves, promotes and develops Armenian cinematography and provides state financial support to full-length feature, short and animation projects. The Director of the NCCA is Shushanik Mirzakhanyan, and the headquarters are located in Yerevan. History The first Armenian film with Armenian subject called "Haykakan Sinema" was produced in 1912 in Cairo by Armenian-Egyptian publisher Vahan Zartarian. The film was premiered in Cairo on 13 March 1913. In March 1924, the first Armenian film studio: '' Armenfilm'' ( "Hayfilm," "Armenkino") was established in Yerevan, starting with ''Soviet Armenia'' (1924), an Armenian documentary film. ''Namus'' was the first Armenian silent black-and-white film (1925), directed by Hamo B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sound Film
A sound film is a Film, motion picture with synchronization, synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures became commercially practical. Reliable synchronization was difficult to achieve with the early sound-on-disc systems, and amplification and recording quality were also inadequate. Innovations in sound-on-film led to the first commercial screening of Short film, short motion pictures using the technology, which took place in 1923. Before sound-on-film technology became viable, soundtracks for films were commonly played live with organs or pianos. The primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid-to-late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as "talking pictures", or "talkies", were exclusively shorts. The earliest feature fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Harutyun Khachatryan
Harutyun Khachatryan (, ; born 9 January 1955) is an Armenian film director, script writer, director of photography, film producer, General director of the Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival, Meritorious Artist of the Republic of Armenia and voting Member of European Film Academy since 2006. Biography Harutyun Khachatryan was born on January 9, 1955, in Akhalkalak (Georgian SSR, now Georgia). 1981 the future director graduated from the Film Department of Cultural Faculty of the Armenian State Pedagogical Institute in Yerevan, Armenia. Worked as an assistant director and film-director at the Armenian Documentary Studio and later - at Hayfilm/Armenfilm Studio. 2003 Kachatryan was awarded by State Premium of Armenia and became Meritorious Artiste of Republic of Armenia. 2007 – received Prince Claus Award (The Netherlands). 2008 – Awarded by the Medal of “Movses Khorenatsi” by Armenian Government 2008 – Awarded by CHEVALIER DE L’Ordre des Arts et ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atom Egoyan
Atom Egoyan (; ; born July 19, 1960) is an Armenian Canadians, Armenian-Canadian filmmaker. One of the most preeminent directors of the Toronto New Wave, he emerged during the 1980s and made his career breakthrough with ''Exotica (film), Exotica'' (1994), a Hyperlink cinema, hyperlink film set in a strip club. He followed this with his most critically acclaimed film, ''The Sweet Hereafter (film), The Sweet Hereafter'' (1997), an adaptation of the Russell Banks The Sweet Hereafter (novel), novel of the same name, for which he received Academy Award nominations for Academy Award for Best Director, Best Director and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Adapted Screenplay. Egoyan's other significant films include ''The Adjuster'' (1991), ''Ararat (film), Ararat'' (2002), ''Where the Truth Lies'' (2005), ''Adoration (2008 film), Adoration'' (2008), ''Chloe (2009 film), Chloe'' (2009), ''Devil's Knot (film), Devil's Knot'' (2013), and ''Remember (2015 film), Remember'' (2015 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Levon Mkrtchyan
Levon Mkrtchyan (; ; born February 25, 1953, in Leninakan (now Gyumri) is an Armenian director, known for his documentary films about Armenian culture and history, such as ''Davit Anhaght'', ''Charents: Known and Unknown Sides'', ''Jean Garzu'', ''Mesrop Mashtots'', ''My Komitas'', ''And There Was Light'', ''The Book of Independence''. He has received the highest award of the Soviet Union, the Lenin Prize. He has earned numerous awards for his documentaries. His last prestigious award was received during the Golden Eagle film festival for his film ''The Book of Independence'', in the Best Documentary category. He studied in the Directing Department of the Yerevan Fine Arts and Theater Institute. In 1978, he released his debut short film ''The Muses''. In 1984, he graduated from the Directing Department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow. Since 1978, he has shot thirty-three documentaries. He has made a number of films about well known Armenians, i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Last Spring
''Two Elegiac Melodies'', Op. 34, is a composition in two movements for string orchestra by Edvard Grieg, completed in 1880 and first published in 1881. Background The two movements are instrumental arrangements Grieg made of two of his ''12 Melodies'', Op. 33, published in 1880: these were settings for voice and piano of words by the Norwegian poet and journalist Aasmund Olavsson Vinje.Grieg – Two Elegiac Melodies for string orchestra, Op. 34 Utah Symphony, accessed 7 April 2017.Edvard Grieg � ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Vartanov
Mikhail Vartanov (, , February 21, 1937 – December 29, 2009) was a Soviet filmmaker and cinematographer who made significant contribution to world cinema with the documentary films ''Parajanov: The Last Spring'' and ''Seasons''. He is considered an important cinematographer and documentarian of his generation, noted for artistic collaborations with Sergei Parajanov and such influential documentary films as ''Parajanov: The Last Spring'', ''The Seasons'' (directed by Artavazd Peleshyan), ''The Color of Armenian Land'', and a series of essays including ''The Unmailed Letters''. Early career Vartanov's debut film, ''The Color of Armenian Land'', marked the beginning of his trademark style, afterwards dubbed as the "direction of undirected action." This documentary, featuring a stylized silent commentary by painter Martiros Saryan, also featured Vartanov's friends, the dissident artists Minas Avetisyan and Sergei Parajanov. The film was censored in the Soviet Union; leading up to Av ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frunze Dovlatyan
Frunze Vaghinaki Dovlatyan (; May 26, 1927 – August 30, 1997) was an Armenian film director, screenwriter and actor. Biography Frunze Dovlatyan was born in Gavar, Soviet Armenia, a brother to Vram Dovlatyan. He was a theater actor before becoming a director. He starred as an actor in Armenian provincial theatres from 1941 and then in Gabriel Sundukian Drama Theatre of Yerevan, where he was awarded Stalin Prize for his performance in the role of Hrayr in the play ''Ays astgherë mern en'' ("These Stars Are Ours"). In 1959, he graduated from the directing department of the All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) in Moscow, where he studied under Sergei Gerasimov. His most well-known film is '' Barev, yes em'' ("Hello, That's Me!", 1967), which received the State Prize of the Armenian SSR. Dovlatyan headed the Armenfilm state film studio in the 1980s. He was awarded the title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1983. He died in Yerevan Yerevan ( , , ; ; som ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmond Keosayan
Edmond Gareginovich Keosayan (; ; 9 October 1936 – 21 April 1994) was an Armenian Soviet Union, Soviet film director and musician. * 1952-54 — worked in Yerevan watch factory. 1954-56 — studied in Plekhanov Russian University of Economics, Plekhanov Moscow Institute of Economy. * 1956-58 — studied in Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography, worked as a compere. * 1964 — graduated from the Directing Department of Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography, VGIK (Efim Dzigan's master class). * Since 1964 — director at Mosfilm Studio. Occasionally worked at Armenfilm Studio. He was also a compere of the Soviet State Variety Orchestra. His films are mainly in the Armenian language, Armenian and Russian languages. He died on 21 April 1994 and was buried in the Kuntsevo Cemetery. Filmography *1964: ''Why Are You Quiet Maxim?'' *1965: ''The Cook (1965 film), The Cook'' *1966: ''The Elusive Avengers'' *1968: ''The New Adventures of the Elusive Avengers'' *1971: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seasons Of The Year
''Seasons of the Year'' (; ), also called ''The Seasons'' or ''Four Seasons'', is a 1975 Soviet–Armenian short documentary film, directed and written by Artavazd Peleshyan. It was his second and last collaboration with cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov, after '' Autumn Pastoral'' (1971). Production ''Seasons of the Year'' was filmed by Mikhail Vartanov in black-and-white on 35 mm film in the Armenian SSR. It was Peleshyan's first film not using archive footage. Synopsis The film depicts the struggles of an isolated Armenian farming community against the elements. Armenian folk music is mixed with Vivaldi's ''Four Seasons''. We see the villagers raising sheep and cattle, rolling haystacks down a hillside, dealing with rain and storms, celebrating a wedding, and sliding down a snowy hill while carrying sheep. Release ''Seasons of the Year'' was released in 1975. Decades later it became critically admired in the West, showing at the 40th Berlin International Film Festiva ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artavazd Peleshian
Artavazd Peleshyan (; also ''Pelechian, Peleshian''; born February 22, 1938) is an Armenian director of essay films, a documentarian in the history of film art, a screenwriter, and a film theorist. He is renowned for developing a style of cinematographic perspective known as distance montage, combining perception of depth with oncoming entities, such as running packs of antelope or hordes of humans. Filmmaker Sergei Parajanov has referred to Peleshyan as "one of the few authentic geniuses in the world of cinema". Peleshyan was awarded the title of Merited Artist of the Armenian SSR in 1979, and Merited Artist of the Russian Federation in 1995. His films have been described as being on the border between a documentary and a feature film, somewhat reminiscent of the work of such avant-garde filmmakers as Bruce Conner, rather than of conventional documentaries. However, it has been noted that his work, unlike Maya Deren's, is not firmly within the avant-garde, and that it does not ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henrik Malyan
Henrik Sureni Malyan (, also transliterated Henrik Malian; September 30, 1925 – March 14, 1988) was an Armenian film director and writer. He was born in Telavi, Georgia. Malyan's uncle was the actor David Malyan. He studied chess at an early age, along with Tigran Petrosian. From 1942 to 1945 he worked as a draftsman and designer at a factory in Tbilisi. In 1951 he graduated from the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography. Between 1951 and 1954, he was a director at various theatres in Armenia. In 1953, he graduated from the Moscow Theatre Institute. From 1954 onward he worked with the film studio Armenfilm. His 1977 film '' Nahapet'' (''Life Triumphs'') is considered to be one of the most important Armenian films to deal with the Armenian genocide. It was exhibited at the 1978 Cannes Film Festival. In 1980 he founded the Henrik Malyan Theatre-Studio for stage works. In 1982 he was named a People's Artist of the USSR. Films As director unless noted. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
