THE FILM DIRECTOR’S ART STUDIO - Sergei Parajanov Filmmaker-PlasticianConference proposed by the ACTE Institute-Paris 1

April 16 and 17, 2019, Puppet Theater 4, Sayat-Nova Street, YEREVAN

With an exhibition by students from the Yerevan State Institute of Theater and Cinematography.

APRIL 16 Sergei Parajanov Filmmaker-Plastician : Views and Perspectives.

This first day will be dedicated to the study of Parajanov’s film poetics through various approaches, at the crossroad of film studies and aesthetics, iconography and painting.

Moderator: Olivier Schefer

Doors OpenOlivier Schefer : Parajanov, Introduction to the French Reception of the Works of the Filmmaker and the Plastician Professor of Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Sorbonne School of the Arts. Philosopher, writer and art critic. José Moure : Parajanov Before Parajanov : a Ukrainian Filmmaker. From Andreich (1954) to Shadows of Our Forgotten Ancestors (1964). Professor of Film Studies at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Director of the ACTE Institute (EA 7539).

Anahit Mikayelyan : The Sketches of S. Parajanov’s Films as an art.PhD candidate at the Armenian National Academy of Sciences, Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA (Republic of Armenia). Head of organizing exhibition and publicity of S. Parajanov Museum. Serguei Parajanov Script reading. Lunch

Naïri Galstanian : Parajanov and the Visual Quintessence (of Cinema)Philosopher and translator, a Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and the Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations graduate.

Levon Abrahamian : The World Is a Window: Poetics of Parajanov’s Cinema.Head of the Department of Contemporary Anthropological Studies at the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography NAS RA. Corresponding member of NAS RA.

Wissam Mouawad : An Aesthetic of Dislocation: About Sergei Parajanov’s Caucasian Trilogy.PhD in Film Studies from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University. Author of a Master degree dissertation about Sergei Parajanov’s Caucasian Trilogy. Round table and Conclusion of day 1.

Warm thanks to the YSITC and its Students, the Puppet Theater, and all those who supported us in the preparation of this conference, and Mr Léon Bagdassarian of Saberatours. Thanks to His Excellency the Ambassador of France to Armenia.

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APRIL 17Sergei Parajanov et The Act of Creation.

In this second day we will examine the plastic and creative dimension of Parajanov’s films and visual art. We will question his relation to objects as well as his working methods.

Moderator: Edgar Lejeune

Doors OpenEdgar Lejeune : Introduction to day 2 and presentation of the Paris exhibition in September PhD candidate in History at Diderot University - Paris 7. Filmmaker.Siranush Galstian : Parajanov’s World of Things.PhD in Arts, Associate Professor at the Yerevan State Institute for Theatre and Cinematography. Film historian, film critic, writer. Zaven Sargsyan : The Story of the Creation and name of «Sayat-Nova» Film.Armenian historian and photographer. Curator of the S. Parajanov Museum in Yerevan. Sergei Paradjanov Script reading.

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Gina Fadale et Véronique Verstraete : Plastic Performance, with the participation of YSITC Students.Parisian photographer and videographer, Icon digger.Artist and Assistant Professor in Fine Arts at the Sorbonne School of the Arts. Teacher-Researcher at the ACTE Institute (EA 7539).James Steffen : Playing with Museum Objects: Parajanov’s Cinema and the Fine Arts.Film Historian. Film and Media Studies Librarian at Emory University, Atlanta. Yuri Mechitov : Sources and ways of Parajanov’s creativity.Tbilissi based Photographer. His mentors were Mark Polyakov and Sergei Parajanov. Round table : A moment with Lela Alibegashvili - Evocation of the filmmaker and his work - Conclusion of Day 2.

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Thanks to Yuri Mechitov for these photographs