Director
Artavazd Peleshian
88 years · Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR · 16 films
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).
Best known for
Filmography 16
"I Will Revenge This World With Love" - S. Paradjanov
2024 · Himself
On Klassiki
Nature
2022 · Editor, Director
The Silence of Pelešjan
2011 · Himself
Paradjanov, le dernier collage
1995 · Self
Life
1993 · Director, Writer
End
1992 · Director, Editor
God in Russia
1984 · Director
Our Century
1983 · Director, Editor
Siberiade
1979 · Editor
On myfilmfriend
The Seasons
1975 · Director, Writer
Inhabitants
1970 · Editor, Director
We Are, Our Mountains
1969 · Revaz
On Klassiki
We
1969 · Director, Writer
Beginning
1967 · Director, Editor
The Land of the People
1966 · Director, Writer
Mountain Vigil
1964 · Editor, Director