Martiros

Martiros M. Vartanov, Boy With A Movie Camera

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When Tarkovsky inscribed and sent his child’s drawing to the imprisoned Parajanov who annotated and forwarded it to the blacklisted Vartanov for his son Martiros — Boy with a Movie Camera — he became their disciple. He graduated from UCLA and founded the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute with Parajanov’s family in Hollywood. He also worked with Martin Scorsese’s The Film Foundation on the restoration of Parajanov’s masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates and on the restoration of Vartanov’s masterwork The Last Spring with UCLA (thanks to the support of Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola and Grammy-winning rock band System Of A Down). He also collaborated with the prestigious Busan International Film Festival on the first Parajanov & Vartanov film retrospective and art exhibition and was a member of the jury at IDFA in Amsterdam. Martiros is the artistic director of DOC LA, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival.

Boy with a Movie Camera, Мальчик с киноаппаратом, Տղան կինոապարատով, Martiros Vartanov, Мартирос Вартанов, Մարտիրոս Վարդանով