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RUSSIA · 1975

Seasons of the Year

Artavazd Pelechian
pastoral life man and nature Armenian culture shepherding seasonal cycles
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Synopsis

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.

Year1975
CountryRussia
DirectorArtavazd Pelechian
Cinematic Threads
I got into all these films where people use things to build other stories around them. Like Chris Marker, or Artavazd Peleshyan with Our Century or Seasons of the Year, where archive footage is used to make a whole new kind of film.

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