Between 1895 and 1915, the movie industry developed dramatically in Europe and America. A revolutionary new era of visual expression began, leading to the birth of Hollywood and the world cinema industry. This period also witnessed the collapse of the Ottoman Empire and the First World War. Cinema technology advanced rapidly and a new generation of image production in the US and Europe began to visually document the world, opening a new era of storytelling in cinema.
The first part of the presentation, titled Cinema's Exiles, explores the birth of cinema during the Industrial Revolution and its impact on silent films, including the first Hollywood film about Armenians. The second part of the presentation focuses on the major filmmakers and films that emerged from the Soviet Union, Europe and America after the First World War. The second part also explores the journey of Armenians in world cinema and their short and long-term impact on popular culture.
- The event will be face-to-face.
- The language of the event is English.
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Eric Nazarian
Eric Nazarian is a filmmaker and screenwriter. He graduated from the USC School of Cinematographic Arts and won the Nicholl Fellowship for his screenplay Giants. His first feature film, The Blue Hour, starring Alyssa Milano, won several awards at international film festivals. He was a screenwriter on Three Christs, starring Richard Gere and Peter Dinklage. He also directed Tatanka, about the MMIW crisis, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival.
In addition to filmmaking, Nazarian is a photojournalist whose work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times and MovieMaker. He is currently working on the editing of Die Like a Man, a film about gun violence on the West Side of Los Angeles, and is developing a filmmaking program to combat gun violence. She was recently selected for Marcus Lyon's Alta / A Human Atlas of a City of Angels, which will premiere at the Getty in 2024.