Parajanov Museum in Yerevan

(hsipohusa - Sergei Parajanov Museum, Yerevan, Armenia, '06)

I had never the chance to visit Yerevan; I met with the Armenian civilization on many occasions. There is the Armenian community in Romania, with its history that is strong on its own values. It is in the same time a mirror toward their country of origin: I understood the Armenian ethos from them.

Parajanov belongs to the Armenian ethos, but his genius embraced much more than that. His movies tell us about the whole Eastern Christian culture, from the Carpathians woods to the Caspian borders. Well, better said, not the whole: his movies followed just the borders of the Imperium; the center was the space of Tarkovsky. Only, you know, Armenian and Georgian Christianism is much older than the Imperium.

I am now following Hasmik and Jim (the authors of the video) in their visit to the museum of Parajanov in Yerevan. It is overwhelming: too many great objects gathered together; the space is too tiny and Parajanov has so much to say...

(Parajanov)