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TIGRAN KOCHARYAN ABOUT THE AZERBAIJANI FILM FESTIVAL AND "GOLDEN APRICOT"
July 18 2013
"Absolutely indifference was not displayed, simply, a few things should
not be mixed here with each other. What was done by Georgi Vanyan, was
the Azerbaijani film festival. In other words, a purely Azerbaijani
movies, and the so-called festival was held during Maragha genocide,
on the eve of the anniversary of the Genocide. It was immorality. In
other words, we did not have anything to celebrate or glorify with a
country that is in war with Armenia." - said blogger Tigran Kocharyan
in the interview with Aravot.am, answering the question of why Georgi
Vanyan's initiative last year about holding the Azerbaijani Film
Festival was so tumultuously adopted; the author deserved criticism
and blameworthy, labeling, there were even brawls and red-tape,
but just a few days ago, in the framework of "Golden Apricot"
film festival, the presented Azerbaijani film deserved rather
mild treatment. To remind you that our interlocutor was one of the
inveterate opponents of Vanyan's initiatives and one of the initiators
of counteractions. Tigran Kocharyan does not consider the comparison
of these two events "a little serious", because, according to him,
they are of different ideologies. He also notes that the leadership of
the "Golden Apricot" also tries to present the film as a German movie
produced by an Azeri filmmaker. "In other words, it it is not written
who the author is. It is written that the author is a German. They are
also trying to somehow avoid responsibility." However, even in this
case, according to our interlocutor, "Golden Apricot" became not a
festival of arts, as it claimed, but he sees some obvious politicized
shades: "bringing some questions to Armenia, to advocate here, sowing
irrelevant tolerance. The management of the festival, which claims
that there should be no politics in the art, and that they are out
of it and that the claims are at least false because, since 2009,
when the steps for improving the Armenian-Turkish relations began, an
Armenian-Turkish platform immediately appeared in the "Golden Apricot"
festival. And since 2009, there has not been a year that a Turkish
film has not received an award. Even special prizes are awarded to
films that have no artistic value. And this year it was generally a
shame ... I do not know what their purpose is, but it is evident that
politics has entered the cinema. In my opinion, the "Golden Apricot"
has no longer the value, which originally was planned to have. It is
some politicized event." Nelly Grigoryan
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/07/18/155548/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
July 18 2013
"Absolutely indifference was not displayed, simply, a few things should
not be mixed here with each other. What was done by Georgi Vanyan, was
the Azerbaijani film festival. In other words, a purely Azerbaijani
movies, and the so-called festival was held during Maragha genocide,
on the eve of the anniversary of the Genocide. It was immorality. In
other words, we did not have anything to celebrate or glorify with a
country that is in war with Armenia." - said blogger Tigran Kocharyan
in the interview with Aravot.am, answering the question of why Georgi
Vanyan's initiative last year about holding the Azerbaijani Film
Festival was so tumultuously adopted; the author deserved criticism
and blameworthy, labeling, there were even brawls and red-tape,
but just a few days ago, in the framework of "Golden Apricot"
film festival, the presented Azerbaijani film deserved rather
mild treatment. To remind you that our interlocutor was one of the
inveterate opponents of Vanyan's initiatives and one of the initiators
of counteractions. Tigran Kocharyan does not consider the comparison
of these two events "a little serious", because, according to him,
they are of different ideologies. He also notes that the leadership of
the "Golden Apricot" also tries to present the film as a German movie
produced by an Azeri filmmaker. "In other words, it it is not written
who the author is. It is written that the author is a German. They are
also trying to somehow avoid responsibility." However, even in this
case, according to our interlocutor, "Golden Apricot" became not a
festival of arts, as it claimed, but he sees some obvious politicized
shades: "bringing some questions to Armenia, to advocate here, sowing
irrelevant tolerance. The management of the festival, which claims
that there should be no politics in the art, and that they are out
of it and that the claims are at least false because, since 2009,
when the steps for improving the Armenian-Turkish relations began, an
Armenian-Turkish platform immediately appeared in the "Golden Apricot"
festival. And since 2009, there has not been a year that a Turkish
film has not received an award. Even special prizes are awarded to
films that have no artistic value. And this year it was generally a
shame ... I do not know what their purpose is, but it is evident that
politics has entered the cinema. In my opinion, the "Golden Apricot"
has no longer the value, which originally was planned to have. It is
some politicized event." Nelly Grigoryan
Read more at: http://en.aravot.am/2013/07/18/155548/
© 1998 - 2013 Aravot - News from Armenia
From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress