Hye-Eli Episode 012 - Gariné Torossian
Hye-Eli’s interview this week is with filmmaker, Gariné Torossian. She was born in Beirut, Lebanon of Armenian descent. She moved to Canada in 1979.
She is a filmmaker and visual artist living and working in Toronto. Nineteen of her films have shown internationally at festivals, universities and galleries. Retrospectives of her work have been featured at Cineprobe at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, Cinematheques in Armenia, Lebanon, Canada and Germany, Telluride Film Festival, and Stan Brakhage’s First Person Cinema in Colorado.
Her film GIRL FROM MOUSH (1994), was awarded best experimental film at the Melbourne Film Festival. SPARKLEHORSE (1999) received honorable mention at the 2000 Berlin International Film Festival. HOKEES (2000) won gold prize for experimental drama at the Houston Film Festival BABIES ON THE SUN (2002) received the panorama short film prize at the Berlin International film festival. and STONE TIME TOUCH (2007) won best documentary feature at the Warsaw Internatinal film festival. She has just received a DAAD fellowship in Berlin for 2007.
Hrag Vartanian, a writer and a friend of Gariné’s gave us an insight into her work and Gariné as a person. Thank you Hrag!
I just watched Gariné’s new film, Stone Time Touch (2006), about which she speaks in the interview. It is a wonderful documentary film featuring Arsinée Khanjian, with whom Gariné collaborated with. Highly recommended!
Here is Gariné’s film, Girl From Moush (1993)
