Jagadakeer... Between the Near and EastUSA
2001, 19min.
Dir./Prod./Sound/Edit. Tina Bastajian.
Jagadakeer is an Armenian term meaning fate, destiny or, literally “what is written on one’s forehead.” The filmmaker’s fate was to find in film, a space in which to explore issues of memory, place, nostalgia, absence and reconnection, using the Armenian genocide as point of departure. | Bastajian, Tina Tina Bastajian (born 1962, Los Angeles)
Studied at San Francisco State University and at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.
Filmography
The Idiosyncrasy of Jean-Claude (1983), Oyster Bar (1984), Yellow Aria (1986), Portrait from a Fire Escape (1987), Huda’s Mother Goes Picking (1990), Pinched Cheeks and Slurs in a Language That Avoids Her (1994), Bitter Cucumbers (2000), Jagadakeer… Between the Near and East (2001), Remembering Fatima: A Study on Duration (2002).
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