STONE•HOUSE•STREET: Reactivating the Archive
Artists’ Television Access
992 Valencia St.
Tuesday, June 23, 7–9 p.m.
Armenian-American filmmakers Chris Atamian and Tina Bastajian, alongside sound artist Joseph Bohigian, delve into memory, loss, and the ways in which history continues to shape contemporary Armenian life.
Christopher Atamian’s CivilNet series “House Culture” explores Armenia’s historic house museums, offering an intimate look into the lives, environments, and creative legacies of influential cultural figures including poet Yeghishe Charents, filmmaker Sergei Parajanov and artist Lusik Aguletsi.
In Joseph Bohigian’s Stone Dreams, filmed at Noratus Cemetery by Gabriel Atjian, a stone acts as an instrument calling forth fragments of folk songs to revive collective memory separated from physical sites of memory.
Tina Bastajian’s short film, “A Tree Once Grew on Pushkin” (2009) examines issues of post-Soviet gentrification and loss in Armenia’s capital city of Yerevan.
$10 cash at the door.
Light refreshments & bites by La Méditerranée
Produced and curated by Thea Farhadian
Co-presented by Artists’ Television Access and Mother Armenia
@motherarmenia_bayarea
Link in bio.
atasite.org
The address is 992 Valencia St, San Francisco, CA 94110. $10 cash at the door.
Light refreshments.
https://www.atasite.org/?p=16695
https://www.atamianhovsepian.art/christopher-atamian