Girl from Moush

在23岁的时候，加拿大电影制片人加林·托罗珊从未亲自去过那里，她利用神话、口头传统和插图书籍来想象她在亚美尼亚的精神家园，她父母的土地。她深刻地解构了偏远乡村教堂、在土地上工作的农民或亚美尼亚国家象征阿拉拉特山的图像，以便将它们重新组合成一幅实验性的立体派拼贴画，并将它们与超级8和16毫米电影的纹理以及传统民歌的声音交织在一起。具有历史和永恒意义的文化符号的敏感的电影组合。 　　受伟大的亚美尼亚导演谢尔盖·帕拉扬诺夫（Sergei Parayanov）的电影《塞亚特·诺瓦》（Sayat Nova，1969年石榴色）的启发，托罗西安创造了一个感官超现实的图像领域，关于流离失所的感觉和对文化根源的渴望。 　　At the age of 23, without ever having been there herself, Canadian filmmaker Gariné Torossian makes use of myths, oral traditions and illustrated books to imagine her spiritual home of Armenia, the land of her parents. She impressively deconstructs images of remote village churches, farmers working the land or Mount Ararat, Armenia’s national symbol, in order to reassemble them in an experimental cubist collage and interweave them with the textures of Super 8 and 16mm film and the sounds of traditional folk songs. A sensitive cinematographic mixture of cultural icons of both historical and timeless significance. 　　Inspired by the film Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates, 1969) by the great Armenian director Sergei Parajanov, whose face can be detected in many of this film’s dissolves, Torossian creates a sensuously surreal realm of images about a sense of diaspora and of longing for one’s cultural roots.