Artavazd Peleshian
Directing
- Born
- February 22, 1938 (age 88) · Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR
Creator of the "distange montage," Artavazd Peleshian, one of the key Soviet documentarians, removed the boundaries of feature and documentary films, editing both sequences as a real poetical unity. His "distange montage" was a new step in the development of film editing. Even his student works (The Earth of the People 1966 and the Beginning 1967) shot at VGIK, the oldest film school in Moscow, Russia, were awarded numerous prizes and he gained recognition among filmmakers. Alongside his very successful solo career, Peleshian was invited to direct archive footage by such masters as Lev Kulidzhanov for Zvyozdnaya minuta (1972) and Andrey Konchalovskiy for Siberiada (1979). Mikhail Vartanov directed Osennyaya pastoral (1971) from Peleshian's screenplay. Artavazd Peleshian is the author of a range of theoretical works, including his 1988 book "Moyo kino" ("My Cinema"). Some of the most important works of Armenia's documentary cinema include Sergei Parajanov's Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967), Mikhail Vartanov's Parajanov: The Last Spring (1992) and Artavazd Peleshian's Vremena goda (1975).
Known for
Behind the camera13
- 2022Nature Editor, Director
- 1993Life Director, Writer
- 1992End Director, Editor
- 1984God in Russia Director
- 1983Our Century Director, Editor, Writer
- 1979Siberiade Editor
- 1975The Seasons Director, Writer
- 1974Starlit Minute Co-Director
- 1970Inhabitants Editor, Director
- 1969We Director, Writer