Artavazd Peleshian

Artavazd Peleshian was born on Feb 22, 1938 in Armenia]. Artavazd Peleshian's big-screen debut came with Skizbe directed by Artavazd Peleshian in 1967. Artavazd Peleshian is known for Skizbe directed by Artavazd Peleshian, Feliks Dzierzynski stars as Self (pays his respects to Lenin) and Vladimir Lenin as Self. The most recent award Artavazd Peleshian achieved is Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival. The upcoming new movie Artavazd Peleshian plays is Skizbe which will be released on Jan 01, 1967.

Creator of the "distance montage," Artavazd Peleshian, one of the key Soviet documentary makers, removed the boundaries of feature and documentary films, editing both sequences as a real poetical unity. His "distance 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)] shot at VGIK, the oldest film school in Moscow, were awarded numerous prizes and he gained recognition among filmmakers. In 1975, he petitioned the Soviet authorities to allow the blacklisted cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov to film his ambitious next project and together they created the masterpiece Les saisons (1975). It was Pelechian's first film without any archive footage, thanks to Vartanov's exquisite black and white cinematography.Alongside his very successful solo career, Peleshian was invited to direct archive footage by such masters as Lev Kulidzhanov for Zvyozdnaya minuta (1973) and Andrey Konchalovskiy for Sibériade (1979). Mikhail Vartanov directed Pastorale d'automne (1971) from Peleshian's screenplay.Artavazd Peleshian is the author of a range of theoretical works, including his 1988 book "Moyo kino" ("My Cinema"). Some of the most important works of Armenia's documentary cinema include Sergei Parajanov's Hakob Hovnatanyan (1967), Mikhail Vartanov's Paradjanov: Le Dernier Printemps (1992) and Artavazd Peleshian's Les saisons (1975).