Rare masterpieces of cinema: ARTAVAZD PELESHIAN on 35mm!

Don't miss this UNIQUE CHANCE TO SEE MASTERPIECES of ARMENIAN CINEMA on 35mm! The Balagan Film Series in collaboration with the Film Study Center at Harvard University and the Harvard Film Archive are proud to present 35mm prints of films by Artavazd Peleshian.

More information: http://www.balaganfilms.com/pelechian_spring2010.html

Discovered to the world by the French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard who became his first and most ardent supporter, Armenian Filmmaker Artavazd Peleshian is considered as one of the most important filmmakers of our time, he received the Scam Prize for Television for his whole work in 2000. Artavazd Peleshian is also an inventor of “distance montage”.

Artavazd Peleshian:
"Distance Montage and the effects that it creates evolve like a sphere. It's not linear, it's spherical. It's in continuous motion. If I find the system, if I construct it correctly, it will go, it evolves, and two processes will occur: you will go from the beginning of the film to the end and there will be a mirror effect; you will also go the other way. Central elements may never meet each other... Eisenstein's montage was linear, like a chain. Distance montage creates a magnetic field around the film. It's like when a light is turned on and light is generated around the lamp. In distance montage when the two ends are excited, the whole thing glows…"

Among films featured are: Beginning 10min, 1967; We 30min, 1969; Inhabitatns 10min, 1970; Seasons 29min, 1975; Our Century 50min, 1982