Artavazd Pelechian

Artavazd Pelechian was born in 1938 in Armenia. He worked from 1959 to 1963 in a tool manufacturing workshop, as a worker, then as an industrial designer and finally as a technical constructor. From 1963 to 1968, he studied directing at the Moscow Film Institute, VGIK. Author of thirteen films, short or medium-length films made mainly for Yerevan television, Pelechian is known for the poetic nature of his productions, where he mixes documentary cinema, archives, music and sound effects aestheticizing the elements of daily life. A master in the art of editing, his work holds an important place in the history of cinema and his films still remain uncommonly creative today.

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