We kindly invite you to attend to this festival as part of our graduation work.
(Lilit Grigoryan, Marine Khachatryan, Ani Tuniyants, Maria Zakaryan)
Cinematography and revolution have walked hand in hand throughout history. Since its birth, cinematography served to document revolutions: the camera has invaded squares and streets as a participant or an observing eye. The gradual gathering and sudden dispersal of the crowds, their clashes with the police, and fierce incidents of the revolutionary revolt have attracted filmmakers with a rich visual material for a film.Why did the revolutionaries need films? Lenin, saying that cinema is the most important among the arts, meant its propaganda power that could infect human masses. Cinema was therefore a weapon for revolution.
While documentary filmmaking required personal effort and courage from the operators, directors needed fierce imagination, originality, and a sense of reality. However, with the development of cameras (smartphones, drones, satellite video cameras) and broadcasting media (satellite television, social media, live streaming), not only did the production and distribution of moving images become easier, but also it changed the role of the cinema (in this case, video recording): it changed from a propaganda tool which was employed indirectly, to an organizational tool that could be applied to make revolutions.
The Documentary Film Festival, which is being organized in Stepanavan on October 18-20, is dedicated to the revolutions in different parts of the world. The films included in the festival present the uprising of the masses from different angles: sometimes they are filmed from the inside, as if the camera is in a crater, and sometimes it resembles a reportage or eyewitness testimony. Sometimes the camera is an eye that follows events from the height of a bird’s flight.
The festival is organized as part of the graduation work of the 2018-2019 school year students of the School of Art Criticism and Curatorial Studies at the Institute of Contemporary Art-Yerevan.
The festival is organized with the financial support of the RA Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sport.
Program
18.10
17:00
Opening ceremony
17:30
The Beginning
Director Artavazd Peleshyan
Production 1967
Length 9 min.
Country Soviet Union
Theatrical Square
Director Grigor Harutyunyan
Production 1988
Length 27 min.
Country Soviet Union
18:30
Music
19.10
12։00
December
Director Arman Harutyunyan
Production 2019
Length 23m.
Country Armenia
Pasaran
Director Carine Aroyan, Nare Navasardyan
Production 2019
Length 74m.
Country Armenia
15։00
The Reluctant Revolutionary
Director Sean McAllister
Production 2012
Length 70m.
Country United Kingdom
18։00
Anniversary of the Revolution
Director Dziga Vertov
Production 1918
Length 119 m
Country Russia
Special guest Nikolai Izvolov
20.10
12։00
Winter on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom
Director Evgeny Afineevsky
Production 2015
Length 102m.
Country Ukraine, United States, United Kingdom
15։00
:Docu-boon
Documentary film competition winners
Production 2019
Country Armenia
The road to…
Director Davit Stepanyan
Production 2019
Length 43 min.
Country Armenia
18։00
The Square
Director Jehane Noujaim
Production 2013
Length 108m.
Country Egypt, United States
