Sergei Parajanov - Documentary [1/6]

[gtsvideodotcom]

Both are correct, especially when added together: an actress mother would both encourage and inspire director talent in a child. An accountant mother might spank the kid and give him a math textbook instead.

[TimeAndTheImage]

Brilliant! Thank you!

[outofreal]

Thank you for posting. Parajanov was a brilliant artist, director and person...

[paranapoleon]

just discovered him! im just amazed.

I must admit: Parajanovs images r truly comparable to tarkovski! (would have never thought that id ever say something like this ;)

looking forward on watching his works =)

[Crossbearershvili]

I wouldn't speculate on art as a such here, it's in an eye of the beholder.

But I think, overbearing one with to many novatoring-like new trickers

Is not that much high art, as maybe, ethnic Urartu post-depression.

However I hated when he forced upon us movies of submission,

While Russia planed chocke us with nerve gas and agression.

[cineasta71]

I can understand that you have to be born to be a director but your mother has to be an actress is bit too much, maybe he meant in a abstract manner in wich we are all actors...

[PeopleOfAr]

@cineasta71 he means to say being a director is genetic. He uses mother metaphor as an exaggeration. Like no it's not enough to be director from birth even your mother has to give this directors gene through the placenta. Basically he is saying it's the nature as oppose to nurture.

[cineasta71]

@PeopleOfAr Agreed on.

[PathosDistanz]

@PeopleOfAr It's a romanticized view that doesn't necessarily have much validity. If we extend the metaphor to other arts, then the existence of da Vinci (and other artists) is a mystery, or one that shatters such a romantic view, because neither of his parents were artists. Although many abilities are certainly inherent, that view is too totalizing and can't be sustained as an absolute rule, so he's advancing dogmatic criteria or paradigms.

[liberalnut]

i believe you ARE born a film director, all these actors who try just fail

[ladivasofia]

True genius!!!!

[ritadf]

thanks!!

[nikhilsablania]

Nikhil Sablania (India): Thank you for posting.

[antiochus66]

fantastic...thank you for this.

[dwillwright]

ΑΠΙΣΤΕΥΤΟΣ ΤΥΠΟΣ!!!!! ΜΠΡΑΒΟ

[pasoungato]

Thank you!

[arunah11]

Thank you for posting this very interesting documentary !

[winkwildly]

This couldn't have been shot in 1994, since Parajanov died in 1990. He says he is 64, so it must've been around 1988.

[adriantabatha]

is this the documentary that showed at the gene siskel film center this month? (that was called parajanov: a requiem and was made by ron holloway). it's still listed on the site through the end of the month. thank you so much for posting this.  wish we had a film center in sf like the gene siskel film center! luckily i was able to get to shadows of our forgotten ancestors to see the new print, so beautiful and haunting! i wish i could have seen them all. thank you again!

[europecinema]

... Exactly... The title is "Paradjanov: A Requiem", shot in Germany in 1994!

[winkwildly]

@europecinema I believe it was shot in 1988, as Parajanov died the following year.

[nolaughingmatter]

What a charismatic man and artist - RIP.

[SashaInChina]

Thank you for posting this!

[axavild]

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