Sergei Parajanov
Sergei Parajanov made films that looked like dreams carved in stone.
Banned, imprisoned, stripped of his work — he refused to make anything ordinary. The Soviets couldn't decide what to charge him with because nothing he created fit their categories.
This piece is built from his visual language. The pomegranate. The portrait. The layered collision of Armenian life against a system that tried to erase it.
He was too Armenian to be contained.