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back Centre for Contemporary Images - Saint-Gervais Genève Saturday 31 January 2004, 8:30pm Screening of films by Artavazd Pelechian - in presence of the filmmaker

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Programme: Nash vek (Our Century), 1982, USSR/Armenia, Yerevan/Moscow, (long version) 50’ My (Us), 1969, USSR/Armenia, Yerevan/Moscow, 30’ Natchalo (At the beginnning), 1967, USSR, Moscow, 10’ Zemlja Ljudej (Men's Land), 1966, USSR, Moscow, 10’ (see below...)

Artavazd Pelechian, Us (Menk or My), 1992 Artavazd Pelechian studied directing at the Cinematographic Institute in Moscow (VGIK) between 1963 and 1968. In 1988 he published his theoretical texts on cinema under the title Moe Kino (My Cinema, Erevan). Pelechian’s films were very little seen in the West until the end of the 1980s. In 1992 one of the first retrospectives was held at the Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, and the French television channel Antenne 2 devoted an evening to his films. The Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, presented an exhibition of his work ’Un Art Populaire’, the same year. Artavazd Pelechian, At the beginning, 1992 top

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