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FILM AND VIDEO DIRECTORS

PUBLISHER
Kerber

BOOK FORMAT
Clothbound, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 432 pgs / illustrated throughout.

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Pub Date
Out of print

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D.A.P. Exclusive
Catalog: FALL 2004

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ISBN 9783936646603 TRADE
List Price: $40.00 CDN $50.00

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Artavazd Peleschian: Our Century

Essays by Paul Virilio, Constantin Wulff, and François Niney. Preface by Gerald Matt.

The cinematic oeuvre of Artavazd Peleschian--11 films--is considered one of the most influential of Russian documentary cinema. Shifting between documentary and experiment, between poetry and quotidian life, the work of this reclusive Armenian filmmaker brings image and sound together in an imposing overall composition. He calls his unique editing technique “contrapuntal editing,” and through it achieves tension-filled sequences and sharp image changes, often set to the rhythmic power of music. In the tradition of Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein, Peleschjan has revived the avant-garde film tradition. But though he was recognized and supported by Jean-Luc Godard in the 60s, his work has remained largely elusive. Nevertheless, it is screened regularly at film festivals and, since the 90s, Peleshian has gained some art world recognition: Paul Virilio included Peleschian's longest work, Our Century (1982), a key role in the exhibition Ce qui arrive at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Our Century is a grandiose black-and-white film about the dreams and nightmares of the progress of civilization in the twentieth century. It shows what Hannah Arendt recognized in 1968, that progress and catastrophe are flip sides of the same coin. Seasons (1972-75) gives a striking picture of daily life in Armenia, of life caught between progress and tradition, still marked by its dependence on and vulnerability to the forces of nature. The short film Inhabitants (1970) shows, partly through archival footage, partly through images from the filmmaker's own camera, animals of the steppe fleeing from an unspecified but constant threat.
Artavazd Peleschian: Our Century

STATUS: Out of print | 11/28/2010

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