Armenia,
1982, 28 min
Shown in 1991 / 1999
CREDITS
- dir
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Arthur Peleshian
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COMMENTS
Shown in 1991 in the Discovering Arthur Peleshian program, with Arthur Peleshian in person. Shown as part of the program of Masters of Montage, which was included in the Indelible Images series in 1999; selected by Craig Baldwin.
An apocalyptic meditation on man’s desire to conquer space, Our Century is cinema as pure poetry—astonishingly majestic and energetic.
—Joel Shepard
FACTOID #109
Though the film had won two major awards at the Berlin Film Festival, John Cassavetes’ Love Streams was pulled from the SFIFF program at the last minute by the distributor. According to Cassavetes, MGM/UA was concerned that showing Streams, which the director himself proclaimed ’a crazy film,’ at the SFIFF might hurt the film’s box office upon wider release
