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First-ever American film shot in Armenia opens in New York
armradio.am
14.04.2012 15:45
`There are vistas in Braden King's metaphysical road movie, `Here,'
that are so beautiful you want to step through the screen and
disappear into the Armenian landscape where much of it was filmed,'
Stephen Holden writes in a New York Times article titled `Loving, and
Maybe Exploiting, Armenia.'
Measurement and orientation break down in a dramatic,
landscape-obsessed road movie that chronicles a brief but intense
romantic relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer
and an expatriate Armenian photographer who impulsively decide to
travel together into uncharted territory - both literally and
metaphorically.
Will Shepard is an American satellite-mapping engineer contracted to
create a new, more accurate survey of the country of Armenia. Will
meets Gadarine Najarian at a rural hotel. Tough and intriguing, she's
an expatriate Armenian art photographer on her first trip back in
ages, passionately trying to figure out what kind of relationship - if
any - she still has with her home country and culture. Fiercely
independent, Gadarine is struggling to resolve the life she's led in
Canada and Europe with the Armenian roots that run so deeply, if
unconsciously, through her.
There is an almost instant, unconscious bond between these two lone
travelers; they impulsively decide to continue together. HERE tells
the story of their unique journey and the dramatic personal
transformations it leads each of them through.
Will and Gadarine move through Armenia and its remarkable landscape
photographing measuring, and experiencing the trip in their own
individual ways and, ultimately, through each other's eyes. Their
journey takes them across the length of the country, from the Lori
region in the north to the Iranian border in the south, and finally
into the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It is here that they are forced to
confront their intensifying relationship and the difficult questions
it raises.
Along the way, Will is continually challenged with erroneous data as
his trip descends toward failure, while Gadarine encounters much more
personal static: nationality, culture, family, old friends. As she
starts to discover a new relationship with her homeland, Will begins
to question the solitary life he has chosen.
The two become deeply connected as their sense of themselves - and
their worlds - expands. As their trip comes to an end, each must deal
with the conclusions to which their journey has led them - and each
must decide where to go from HERE.
`When I visited for the first time in 2004, it was instantly clear
that Armenia was the most precise lens through which to focus in on
HERE's story and themes. Within the first few hours of that very first
trip, there was no place else to go,' Director of the film Braden King
said.
armradio.am
14.04.2012 15:45
`There are vistas in Braden King's metaphysical road movie, `Here,'
that are so beautiful you want to step through the screen and
disappear into the Armenian landscape where much of it was filmed,'
Stephen Holden writes in a New York Times article titled `Loving, and
Maybe Exploiting, Armenia.'
Measurement and orientation break down in a dramatic,
landscape-obsessed road movie that chronicles a brief but intense
romantic relationship between an American satellite-mapping engineer
and an expatriate Armenian photographer who impulsively decide to
travel together into uncharted territory - both literally and
metaphorically.
Will Shepard is an American satellite-mapping engineer contracted to
create a new, more accurate survey of the country of Armenia. Will
meets Gadarine Najarian at a rural hotel. Tough and intriguing, she's
an expatriate Armenian art photographer on her first trip back in
ages, passionately trying to figure out what kind of relationship - if
any - she still has with her home country and culture. Fiercely
independent, Gadarine is struggling to resolve the life she's led in
Canada and Europe with the Armenian roots that run so deeply, if
unconsciously, through her.
There is an almost instant, unconscious bond between these two lone
travelers; they impulsively decide to continue together. HERE tells
the story of their unique journey and the dramatic personal
transformations it leads each of them through.
Will and Gadarine move through Armenia and its remarkable landscape
photographing measuring, and experiencing the trip in their own
individual ways and, ultimately, through each other's eyes. Their
journey takes them across the length of the country, from the Lori
region in the north to the Iranian border in the south, and finally
into the Nagorno-Karabakh region. It is here that they are forced to
confront their intensifying relationship and the difficult questions
it raises.
Along the way, Will is continually challenged with erroneous data as
his trip descends toward failure, while Gadarine encounters much more
personal static: nationality, culture, family, old friends. As she
starts to discover a new relationship with her homeland, Will begins
to question the solitary life he has chosen.
The two become deeply connected as their sense of themselves - and
their worlds - expands. As their trip comes to an end, each must deal
with the conclusions to which their journey has led them - and each
must decide where to go from HERE.
`When I visited for the first time in 2004, it was instantly clear
that Armenia was the most precise lens through which to focus in on
HERE's story and themes. Within the first few hours of that very first
trip, there was no place else to go,' Director of the film Braden King
said.