Stone•House•Street: Reactivating the Archive
Please join us at Artists Television Access on June 23 at 7:00-9:00pm as Armenian-American filmmakers Chris Atamian, Tina Bastajian and sound artist Joseph Bohigian explore themes of culture, loss and history in modern Armenian culture.
Atamian's CivilNet series "House Culture" explores Armenia’s historic house museums, offering an intimate look into the lives, environments, and creative legacies of influential cultural figures including poet Yeghishe Charents, filmmaker Sergei Parajanov and artist Lusik Aguletsi.
In Bohigian's Stone Dreams, filmed at Noratus Cemetery by Gabriel Atjian, a stone acts as an instrument calling forth fragments of folk songs to revive collective memory separated from physical sites of memory.
Tina Bastajian's short film, "A Tree Once Grew on Pushkin" (2009) examines issues of post-Soviet gentrification and loss in Armenia's capital city of Yerevan.
The address is 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110. $10 cash at the door.
Light refreshments.
https://www.atasite.org/?p=16695
https://www.atamianhovsepian.art/christopher-atamian
https://independentresearcher.academia.edu/TinaBastajian
https://www.josephbohigian.com/
Curated by
Thea Farhadian