MY ARMENIAN PHANTOMS
Armenian Film Society London
MY ARMENIAN PHANTOMS
📅 Wed 9 Sept, 6:20pm
📍 Bertha DocHouse, Curzon Bloomsbury, The Brunswick, London WC1N 1AW
🎟 This screening is part of our Tamara Stepanyan double bill. Full info: https://linktr.ee/AFSLondon
🎬 A rare chance to see this film at the UK's only dedicated documentary cinema. We screened it last year to a sold out audience and now it returns for a second London outing. A docu essay tracing Soviet Armenian cinema through the filmmaker's own family history. Introduced by Tamara Stepanyan.
❤️ In her own words:
"On January 19, 2020, I lost my father, Vigen Stepanyan, suddenly and brutally. My father was an actor, both in theater and film. He was very popular in Armenia: you could recognize him in the street, and his funeral was attended by political figures, personalities from the art world with whom he had collaborated, and many anonymous people who came to pay their respects. He is buried in the Tokhmakh Pantheon, the Armenian Pantheon.
The pain caused by the death of a father is unthinkable and impossible to describe. So I won't attempt it. What I do know, and what I can tell, is that the grief caused by his death was all the more intense because I imagined that we still had plenty of time to talk. I liked to imagine our future conversations, in which I would talk to him about my film projects and he, in turn, would tell me about his life as an actor, with all its ups and downs and anecdotes, some funny (even truculent), others more serious. I'd even advised him to write his memoirs... Now our dialogue is broken forever. My father will never write his memoirs...
My Armenian Phantoms was born of this interrupted dialogue, of these unwritten memories. How my father's disappearance opened the doors of the past wide for me. The Armenian past. And the past of cinema. Both intimately linked. As I began to dialogue with his ghost, as I began to search for and collect traces of his past career, as I began to revisit the films he starred in, I came across other ghosts from the history of Armenian cinema. It was as if my father's ghost had taken me by the hand and led me into a circle of ghosts linked, in one way or another, to the world of cinema."
— Tamara Stepanyan
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