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STONE, TIME, TOUCH

13.07 - 10.00 Moscow Cinema, Small Hall
13.07 - 22.00 Moscow Cinema, Small Hall
2006, Canada, 70 min.

Dir./Edit.: Gariné Torossian, Dir. of Phot.: F. Kelemen, R. Khachatryan, Compos.: Zulal, Sound: D. Pellerin.
Participants in film: A. Khanjian, K. Abrahamian, B. Salbian, A. Arevshatian.

This essay-documentary film separates, assembles and layers the details that construct the fundamental truths of Armenia and Armenian identity, both large and intimate.

Gariné Torossian

Born 1970, Beirut.
Self-taught filmmaker and photographer. Mining a rich palette of colors and textures, superimpositions and dissolves, she creates stunningly sophisticated films that bridge the gaps between visual, sound art, cinema and the rock video. Eighteen of her films have shown internationally at festivals. Retrospectives of her work include New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Stan Brakhage’s first person cinema, Yerevan Cinematheque, Berlin Arsenal, and Telluride Festival. She’s been awarded prizes and mentions at Berlin, Melbourne and Houston film festivals.

Filmography
Visions (1992), Platform (1993), Girl From Moush (1994), Drowning In Flames (1995), My Own Obsession (1996), Passion Crucified (1997), Pomegranate Tree (1998), Red Brick (1999), Sparklehorse (1999), Dust (2000), Death To Everyone (2000), Hokees- (2000), Babies On The Sun (2001), Shadowy Encounters (2002), Garden In Khorkhom (2003), Sandias Eustasy (2004), Hypnotize/Mezmerize – System of a Down (2005), Stone, Time, Touch (2006).

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Script/Dir.: Marco Bellocchio, Dir. of Phot.: Alberto Marrama, Compos.: Ennio Morricone, Prod. Design.: Gisella Longo, Edit.: Silvano Agosti, Prod.: Enzo Doria.
Cast:. Lou Castel, Paola Pitagora, Marino Masé, Liliana Gerace, Stefania Troglio, Jeannie McNeil.

On a rural estate live three brothers, a sister, and their blind, religious mother. Three of the siblings have epilepsy, the fourth and eldest, Augusto does not, and he's about to break away from the family: he's in love with Lucia and planning to move to the city. Augusto's sister Guilia tries to frustrate the lovers, while another brother, Alessandro, hatches a far-reaching plot to free himself of his mother's demands and other family responsibilities, to give Augusto the wherewithal to leave with Lucia, and, perhaps, to pursue incestuous impulses with his sister.

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Silver Ribbon - Best Original Story, Italian National Syndicate of Film Journalists, 1966; Silver Sail, Locarno IFF, 1965.

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Script/Dir./ Dir. of Phot./Prod.: Cristobal Vicente, Compos.: Carlos Canales, Toto Alvarez, Sound: Mario Diaz, Rafael Huerta, Cristobal Vicente. Edit.: Cristobal Vicente, Carlos Klein.

This film presnts a record of the last working year of the old prison of Valparaiso, which closed in 1999. It is a homage to the prison and to the values and customs of the men, who have secretly lived within it during its 150 year history.

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