Martiros Vartanov | Boy With A Movie Camera
When Tarkovsky inscribed and sent his child’s drawing to the imprisoned Parajanov who annotated and forwarded it to the blacklisted Vartanov for his son Martiros, he became their disciple — Boy with a Movie Camera. His first film, The Last Film, dedicated to them, was released by Criterion.
He founded the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute with Parajanov’s family in Hollywood and worked with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation on the restoration of Parajanov’s masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates, and on the restoration of Vartanov’s masterwork The Last Spring with UCLA (thanks to the support of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola and Grammy-winning rock band System Of A Down).
Martiros also collaborated with the prestigious Busan International Film Festival on the first Parajanov & Vartanov film retrospective and art exhibition, was a member of the jury at IDFA in Amsterdam, and is the artistic director of DOC LA, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival.
Boy with a Movie Camera, Мальчик с киноаппаратом, Տղան կինոապարատով, Martiros Vartanov, Мартирос Вартанов, Մարտիրոս Վարդանով
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