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The KINO~collage project was funded by an ArtsLink/CEC International Partnerships Media Arts Grant. In fall 2002, Los Angeles film/video artist Tina Bastajian taught film editing workshops to young adults at a Hay-Art Centre in Yerevan, Armenia. The short films were made from an eclectic array of found footage: documentary, fiction, and animation subjects. Experimenting with collage and film editing techniques, the emphasis often shifted to recognize the possibilities and/or the limitations with the materials and equipment at hand, to produce uniquely personal, hybrid and provocative works. The project will travel to other art centers and venues in North America and abroad, as it mutates in form and content. Filmmakers include: Suzy Khanjian, David Paradian, Vahagn, Helen Avdalian and David Aivazyan Artslink/CEC Projects FILMS "This elegiac film poem views the Armenian genocide of nearly a century ago through an intentionally murky lens, as an event just out of our reach, poignantly illustrating the impermanence of memory.” (Mark Fox 44th San Francisco International Film Festival) Jagadakeer ... between the near and east is a personal film, a meditation of sorts that forms an intricate series of transitions to explore memory, nostalgia, displacement, erasure and reconnection using the Armenian Genocide as a point of departure and visual/aural backdrop. The film juxtaposes stylized tableaus, found footage and home-movies with recurring but disparate narratives that are interrupted and staggered, which continually forces the viewer to the edge of knowing the locale or how to locate themselves. These starts and stops like memory itself, evoke a sense of homeland, a lost and enigmatic landscape. Tina Bastajian, ©2001- Stereo-19: 15 minutes. Third World Newsreel Distribution
“Simply told, Pinched Cheeks is an effective work that speaks loudly of cultural biases.” (Lea Russo- Los Angeles View, April 1996) Pinched Cheeks and Slurs in a Language that Avoids Her Tina Bastajian, ©1996-10 minutes Canyon Cinema Distribution Contact: tina@kinostudio.org |
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