Palms
( Ladoni )
Artur Aristakisian
1994 - Russie - Noir & Blanc - 138'
Production : VGIK
Distribution : Artur Aristakisian (artur.61@mail.ru, +7 92 62 28 86 94)
Artur Aristakisian
1994 - Russie - Noir & Blanc - 138'
A rare, final year school film, Ladoni is an immersion into the world of beggars, the excluded and the marginalised. The poor, men, women and children with distorted bodies, walk the streets begging in search of a little sustenance. They are captured and followed in the streets of Chisinau, Moldavia by Aristakisian who films them frontally, walking ahead of them or catching up to them as if driven by an impulse, the necessity to deliver, in a long letter addressing a son yet unborn, a mystical and visionary chant, calling on the listener to oppose the "system" and to join the resisting "body" of the poor.
Production : VGIK
Distribution : Artur Aristakisian (artur.61@mail.ru, +7 92 62 28 86 94)