PALMS
PALMS

PALMS

Director Artour Aristakisian

Production year 1994

Length 140min.

Country Russia/Moldova

SYNOPSIS

"My little son, it's me, your father..." The narrator tries to communicate with his unborn son and takes off on a journey where you see the faces of apparitions of those outcasts, who find their solace of living only in the shadows; outside, but beside, the political and economical system; system that kills the individual and creates masses instead. These outcasts are bums, cripples, madmen and lunatics. They, in the eyes of the narrator, are the only ones that know what it means to be human. They are not corrupted by the masses or the system; they are so overwhelmed by their madness or dreams, that they have lost the relationship with the world. They live in a world of their own, thus enabling freedom from the system. What they do, is wait. They quietly wait for the day the kingdom of God will descend upon earth.

CAST & CREW

Artour Aristakisian
Artour Aristakisian

Director

Producer(s)

Artour Aristakisian

Script

Artour Aristakisian

Director of Photography

Artour Aristakisian

Production company(ies)

Russian State Institute of Cinema (VGIK)

Artour Aristakisian

Born in Kishinev, Moldova. From 1988 to 1993 he made his studies at the Documentary Film Directing Department of Moscow All-Rusian University of Cinematography (VGIK), where he created the Fable School Lab. Artour Aristakisian has a Directing Lab in the Moscow School of New Cinema.


Filmography

Palms (1994, doc,), A Place on Earth (2001).

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