Parajanov in Cafesjian
In the Hall for special event at Cafesjian Center for the Arts (CCA), this year’s last event of the “Encounters with Art” series, was dedicated to the Armenian world renowned filmmaker Sergei Parajanov and his 90th anniversary. Writer, culturologist and philosopher Ruben Angaladian delivered a lecture on “Parajanov’s Artistic Experience as a National Phenomenon,” which, basically, covered our approaches and various estimates to Parajanov. “The assessment that we give to him, do we mean only Parajanov’s film “The Color of Pomegranates” or in general?” asked the speaker. R. Angaladian presented what place Parajanov takes in the history of the world culture.
According to him, Parajanov, being a citizen, made dozens of innovation, but however, was out of our way of thinking. “He creates a form, a shape, finds a space, coming to Armenia, he get the great impulse, which leads to “The Color of Pomegranates “. According to R. Angaladian, if you compare Parajanov to Arshile Gorky, then you come to a conclusion that he was the same dignity that was in the United States. According to him, only Arshile Gorky and Sergei Parajanov were nourished by our values, but not Garzu. Zaven Sargsyan, Director of Sergei Parajanov Museum, presented the period of Parajanov when he came to Armenia offended, “He belongs to the entire humanity.” Z. Sargsyan shared the desire by one of our compatriots abroad. It would be right to screen Parajanov on the Genocide Centennial. A documentary film was screened, which was taken in 1988; it is a “simple interviews” shot by an American film director. This interview took a breath when being in Munich, it as it should be mentioned later was Parajanov’s last interview, “The Will.” In his last film-interview, Parajanov was presenting his approaches, his passed path and the years of his being in prison, saying that if he had not created in prison, he would have become a criminal and a double criminal.
