Here Tolstoy’s daughter, who read about the greatest sufferings, tragedies and horrors of war in the books, for the first time clashes with harsh reality. Particularly, condition of local and migrant Armenians had deep impact on her.
“These indicators aren’t surprising, as humanity, as a result of globalization needs for fast food, including in art as well. It’s known, that the movie has its main three types—mainstream movie, art house and movies, created by combination of both, which, comparatively, are demanded as well.”
Varini takes enclosed spaces or the urban environment and arranges geometric, abstract installations in them. Those formal organizations might be not comprehensible at first glance. But, suddenly, they concentrate the viewers’ glance at a single point, the “point of view”, exploring the features of the specific architectural building.
“I never ignore telenovela as a genre, however, theater is the best for me. I’m very proud to star in more than 25 telenovelas. However, of course, I have a dream to star in a good movie. I starred in 10 movies, but not as the main character. I’m waiting for “my role.””
The illustrated book has been published owing to the support of the RA Ministry of Culture, the State Committee coordinating the commemoration events dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide and VivaCell-MTS.
“It was crucial for me, that people knew there was a house, a place, where art was still alive, life was going on, from which people, fighting in those years, were “obliged” to live, at least for an undeniable truth, that art is the highest result of human activity. Surprising enough, it’s been a long time that Parajanov isn’t alive, however, his art makes a person feel all this, maybe again to prove the fact, that we dealt with the human type of a genius.”
“Ancestors of my mother are from Nagorno-Karabakh, from where my great-grandparents were forced to leave for Central Asia. My grandfather was 5 then, their family was evicted. He did silkworm breeding in Kyrgyzstan. One of my uncles tried to make our family-tree to understand who’s on its roots. It turned out, that mother’s side of my great-grandmother is the relative of my favorite composer—Aram Khachatryan. A crucial meeting in my teenage years was acquaintance with Genady Astsaturyan, Armenian composer and arranger living in Crimea. He taught me to jazz, listening to hard music, and did arrangement for me. I was a member of the Astsaturyans, and was visiting Armenian parties..”
Unfortunately, here, in Armenia, it’s impossible to have full halls through this art type. Besides, it’s been scientifically proven that human brain isn’t able to get information for 40 minutes uniterrupted, as it’s a big load for the brain. Conditioned by this and other reasons, I mainly participated in various corporative invitations. In this month I missed an important forum, the only reason for which was indifference towards the genre.
Both in creative and everyday life Sergei Parajanov never stopped being different from others, an individual seeking for and finding unique solutions. People tell that, upon his initiative every feast was becoming an unforgettable event for the guests. Especially the birthday on January 9 of the film director was the one. Although Zaven Sargsyan, Master’s old friend, and currently director of S.Parajanov House-Museum, told 168.am that he usually spent his birthday on his son’s—Suren Parajanov’s birthday on November 9.
Ryan was inspired to film this movie when she read The Human Comedy while going through her divorce with Dennis Quaid, when her son Jack – who is also cast in the movie – was 8. “I kept thinking, ‘How do you become a man? I mean is he going to be all right?’ And I remember reading all kinds of things, and I got to this book, and it’s about so many things…there was so many great ideas inside of it,” she said.
