Artavadz Pelešjan 

'Il silenzio di Pelešjan' (Pelešjan's silence) is a portrait about the great armenian film director Artavadz Pelešjan. The film deals with the strong, and still not recognized, artistic experience of Artavadz Pelešjan, from his arrival in Moscow from Yerevan in the early '60s, passing through the years spent at the renowned film school in Moscow VGIK and arriving to the intense film production of Pelešjan, who has written several essays on film-making, stating that his interest in film and in montage relies not on the historical definition of montage as 'union of closed framings', rather on the emotional field created by the interaction of distant elements, the so-called 'theory of the distant montage'. The film is built of extracts of Pelešjan's films, archive material and material shot, in super 16mm, in Moscow by a small film unit directed by Pietro Marcello ('La Bocca del Lupo').

The film has been promoted by Enrico Ghezzi and Stefano Francia di Celle for 'Fuori Orario', a famous television italian program on cinema, which is broadcasted at nights from friday to sunday:

'Il Silenzio di Pelešjan'

directed by Pietro Marcello

produced by: Zivago Media

in association with: Kinesis Film and Avventurosa Film

in collaboration with: Rai Cinema

executive producers: Rino Sciarretta and Simone Gattoni

editing: Sara Fgaier

assistant director: Emanuele Vernillo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ts-Qrvn9sQ

http://www.labiennale.org/en/Home.html

source:
http://www.filmkommentaren.dk/blog/blogpost/1671/
Tue Steen Müller