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The Short Films of Artavazd Peleshian

Complete 7 Films collection on 2 DVDs

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DVD I

Nachalo (Beginning) - 9min. 1967
My (We) - 30 min. 1969
Obitateli (The Inhabitants) - 10 min.  1970
Vremena Goda (Seasons) - 30 min.   1975

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In NTSC format (US and Canada only)

 DVD II

Nash Vek (Our Century) 30 - 50 min.  1982-92
Konets (End) - 10 min.   1992
Zhizn' (Life) - 10 min.   1993

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It is really an impossible task to try to convey the simple greatness of Armenian director Artavazd Peleshian's films, which have remained essentially unknown to the world at large. The great director Sergei Paradjanov (also of Armenian descent) called Peleshian one of the few authentic geniuses of cinema. His films (most of them 30 minutes or less) really have to be seen to be believed, and it is quite incredible that they are not available for viewing. (We had to get them directly from the Armenian film studio in Yerevan). Along with Godfrey Reggio's Koyaanisqatsi, these films have to be considered the greatest ever made in the history of cinema. Peleshian, like Reggio, is classified often as an experimental documentary filmmaker. And like Reggio, Peleshian also uses a kind of technique, which strives for the "view from above". The fact that his films are actually successful in this "view from above" without the slightest hint of pretension or conceit shows his pure dedication to spirituality.  The Rhythm of the Universe:
  
"It's about what I'm striving for, what we're all striving for - every person, humanity...the wishes and desires of the people to ascend, to transcend..." (Peleshian on his film "Our Age" - from an interview with MacDonald in "A Critical Cinema 3").

   "...I was thinking of everything. It's not specifically the seasons of the year or of people: it's everything." (ibid)

"Eisenstein's montage was linear, like a chain. Distance montage creates a magnetic field around the film... Sometimes I don't call my method "montage". I'm involved in a process of creating unity. In a sense I've eliminated montage: by creating the film through montage, I have destroyed montage. In the totality, in the wholeness of one of my films, there is no montage, no collision, so as a result montage has been destroyed. In Eisenstein every element means something. For me the individual fragments don't mean anything anymore. Only the whole film has the meaning." (Peleshian - ibid)

  "For me, distance montage opens up the mysteries of the movement of the universe. I can feel how everything is made and put together; I can sense its rhythmic movement." (Peleshian - ibid)

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This is solely collector to collector sale. The films were collected over long period of time from various TV broadcasting. Most of them were digitally remastered, so you'll receive them in the BEST possible QUALITY . Films are recorded  on High Quality DVDs in HQ Mode & NTSC format (US and Canada only) . Considering the rarity of these films the picture and sound quality is nearly perfect in all 7 films, therefore we gurantee 100% satisfaction.

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