Hamlet Hovsepian
Statement by Hamlet Hovsepian regarding the films:
“What have been presented are totally unrelated events (material) at the outset.
The relation between them portrays neither pleasant nor unpleasant feelings. To find interest in a place outside man’s attention.”
Hovsepian’s works seem to occupy a state of suspension: on the one hand, they adhere insistently to the naked, documentary gaze of early ethnographic film. On the other, they open up the potential of an allegorical vision which not only inscribes the observed gestures and actions into the registry of acondition humaine in the spirit of Samuel Beckett, but assume a concretely political dimension as well: as a revolt against the pervasive ideologization of everyday life in the Soviet Union, and as an attempt to wrest a degree of existential freedom from this system.
Hamlet Hovsepian (b. 1950 in Ashnak) lives and works in Ashnak, Armenia.
-
gildadavidian posted this
