Artavazd Peleshian Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
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)...
Leninakan, Armenian SSR, USSR [now Gyumri, Armenia]
Profession
Director, Writer, Editor
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Depicts man-nature relationship and Armenian culture.
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Uses simple allegories to tell stories.
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Makes poetic films with careful use of music, various b&w constrasts and speeds of film.
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[about Sergei M. Eisenstein] "Eisenstein's montage was linear, like a chain. Distance montage creates a magnetic field around the film... Sometimes I don't call my method "montage". I'm involved in a process of creating unity. In a sense I've eliminated montage: by creating the film through montage, I have destroyed montage. In the totality, in the wholeness of one of my films, there is no montage, no collision, so as a result montage has been destroyed. In Eisenstein every element means something. For me the individual fragments don't mean anything anymore. Only the whole film has the meaning."
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[on Four Seasons (1972)] "I was thinking of everything. It's not specifically the seasons of the year or of people: it's everything."
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[on Mer dare (1983)] "It's about what I'm striving for, what we're all striving for - every person, humanity...the wishes and desires of the people to ascend, to transcend..."
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For me, distance montage opens up the mysteries of the movement of the universe. I can feel how everything is made and put together; I can sense its rhythmic movement.
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He received the Life Time Achievment Award at Yerevan Film Festival (Armenia) in 2006.
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Makes extensive use of archive footage along side his own images.
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His films feature no dialog, instead he replaces them with music and sound effects.
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Is the author of several theoretical books, the most famous of which is the 1988 Moyo kino (My Cinema).
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Often makes use of telephoto lens to get what he terms a "candid shot."
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Artavazd Pelechian leads a reclusive lifestyle in Moscow, Russia, and rarely makes public appearances or gives interviews. He also reportedly refuses to sign contracts.
$1.1 Million
