Arsen Azatyan
2021Andrey
Narine Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
A short feature-documentary film dedicated to the bright memory of Andrey Tarkovsky - the great master of world cinema. In 1965 A. Tarkovsky visited Armenia, Geghardavank. It is hard to say what he has been looking for and what he has seen there. Fortunately has fixed (on occasion) several frames (6min., 35mm, b/w) from the visit of the greatest master in Geghardavank. Anyway, such frames provide an opportunity for connecting the past and the present by making new shootings and fulfilling the "gaps" which have been missed by the camera 45 years ago. What is the ideology? Indeed, what was Andrey Tarkovsky looking for at the church of the XIII century in such a rocky place? Probably, he was looking for God. ... because nothing else is significant in Geghardavank and around. Only the presence of God is felt in that place.
Andrey
Бобо
Narine Mkrtchian, Arsen Azatyan
The film is dedicated to the renowned film director Sergey Parajanov; to the unfolding memory of a man who was refereed to as a genius, a gay, a mime, a tradesman, a saint. The film possesses no plain and logical plot line and altogether breaks away from the ordinary conception of any film genre. It is a psychoanalysis of the nether-world essence of the great master, a search for other dimensions about which we dare not even sometimes speculate. The Bobo is also peculiar in that it uses the entire material of the master's last unfinished film "Confession" accompanied by Parajanov's confession why he closed down the film, left it unfinished.
Bobo
About Him or How He Did Not Fear the Bear
Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
How does society react to a pointless attack, to violence without any clear motive? The community in the Armenian city of Gyumri faces this conundrum when a Russian soldier kills seven members of a family.
About Him or How He Did Not Fear the Bear
Radio Yerevan
Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
"A refrigerator truck loaded with humanitarian aid arrives in Armenia. The drivers are unable to locate the road to Yerevan and keep looking for it. Parallel to this a string of ludicrous stories unfolds. This is the story of Radio Yerevan in a nutshell, according to its makers." - IFFR
Radio Yerevan