1937 Armenia / France
2007, 44min.
Prod./Script/Dir./Edit.: Nora Martirosyan, Dir. of Phot.: Artak Margaryan, Sound: Silven Grout
Cast: Nune Garibyan, Maria Jaroyan
Two chapters, two epochs, one story… One is the 1937, the apogee of the Stalinist purges in Yerevan, in the Soviet Armenia, the year when Nora Dabagyan’s father, a political dissident was arrested. The other is 2006, the circumstantial story of the arrest related by the old woman, affectionately known as Baboulia, who was a very young girl in 1930s. The tense question between these two sides is how to transmit and what the images and sensations should be conveyed?
Two parts are clearly defined. The first, fictional, silent, is made up of impressions and sensations. The second, more documentary, is build on the words of the old woman. But the two time periods cross over, the stories and the words mix up. The film is homage to transmission and memory.
Awards
Prix Son FID Marseille, France
| Martirosyan, Nora Nora Martirosyan (born 1973, Yerevan, Armenia)
Martirosyan graduated from the Yerevan Academy of Fine Arts in 1996 receiving a diploma in Oil Painting and Graphics. In 1997-2001 she studied at the Amsterdam Rietveld Academie, The Netherlands, receiving a diploma in Visual Arts at the Audio-Visual Department. During 2001-2003 Martirosyan studied at Le Fresnoy, Studio National des Arts Contemporain in France and also Riksakademie van beeldende kunsten in Amsterdam (The Netherlands).
Filmography
6 visites (2002), Aragats (2003), Courant d’Air (2003), Blind Date (2004), Road Movie (2004), 1937 (2007)
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