FILM DIRECTOR

Artavazd Peleshyan

1938 - Today

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Artavazd Peleshyan (Armenian: Արտավազդ (Արթուր) Փելեշյան, romanized: Artavazd (Art’ur) P’eleshyan; also Pelechian, Peleshian; born February 22, 1938) is an Armenian director of essay films, a documentarian in the history of film art, a screenwriter, and a film theorist. He is renowned for developing a style of cinematographic perspective known as distance montage, combining perception of depth with oncoming entities, such as running packs of antelope or hordes of humans. Filmmaker Sergei Parajanov has referred to Peleshyan as "one of the few authentic geniuses in the world of cinema". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Artavazd Peleshyan has received more than 72,782 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Artavazd Peleshyan is the 700th most popular film director (down from 579th in 2019), the 47th most popular biography from Armenia (down from 37th in 2019) and the most popular Armenian Film Director.

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  • 16

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  • 1.60

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Artavazd Peleshyan ranks 700 out of 2,041. Before him are Fred Niblo, Riccardo Freda, Sergei Bodrov, Walter Salles, Richard Marquand, and Dorothy Arzner. After him are Ruben Östlund, Mario Camerini, Tsai Ming-liang, Søren Kragh-Jacobsen, David Chase, and Pierre Granier-Deferre.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Artavazd Peleshyan ranks 260. Before him are Leonardo Favio, Mort Shuman, Roy Thinnes, David Bailey, Nikola Kotkov, and Susan Strasberg. After him are Jayant Narlikar, Myechyslaw Hryb, Ingrid Caven, Mirko Kovač, Barry Dennen, and Enzo G. Castellari.

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In Armenia

Among people born in Armenia, Artavazd Peleshyan ranks 47 out of 163. Before him are Shavarsh Karapetyan (1953), Gennady Timchenko (1952), Ariarathes II of Cappadocia (-350), Vazgen Manukyan (1946), Tigran Sargsyan (1962), and Vardan Areveltsi (1198). After him are Levon Aronian (1982), Hovik Abrahamyan (1959), Hovhannes Shiraz (1914), Shushanik Kurghinian (1876), Sergey Merkurov (1881), and Nicholas Adontz (1871).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Armenia

Among film directors born in Armenia, Artavazd Peleshyan ranks 1. After him are Hamo Beknazarian (1891), and Edmond Keosayan (1936).

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Filmography

The Seasons
Director
The last collaboration of Artavazd Peleshian and cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov is a film-essay about Armenia's shepherds, about the contradiction and the harmony between man and nature, scored to Vivaldi's Four Seasons.
Jan 1o 19756.9 / 10
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Monumental picture exploring the identity and fate of the Armenian nation.
Feb 1o 19696.2 / 10
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Peleshian transforms footage from a train ride into a metaphor for the shape of a life. Early images of faces on the train give way to landscape, a journey through a black tunnel, and a final emergence into pure white light.
Jan 1o 19926.1 / 10