Musicians - film by Don Askarian, SYNOPSIS, Folk-musicians earn their money on the streets of Armenian capital Yerevan, the ropewalkers dance in front of the old monastery Khor-Virap. Their improvisations appear like a poetic mirror for the psychical sensitivity of Armenians: that it is easy to go over the water, try it once in the air". DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT CREDITS Cameraman Artak Markarian, Photos, Documentary DV and BETA SP, 76 min, Germany, Armenia, 2000. Produced by Don Film Production in co-production with Askarian Film, Film 21 and ZDF-3sat. Script, Direction, Editing, Art Direction by Don Askarian

Documentary DV and BETA SP, 76 min, Germany, Armenia, 2000. Produced by Don Film Production in co-production with Askarian Film, Film 21 and ZDF-3sat. © by Don Askarian. Sale and distribution by Don Film, e-mail: donfilm@netsys.am SYNOPSIS Folk-musicians earn their money on the streets of Armenian capital Yerevan, the ropewalkers dance in front of the old monastery Khor-Virap. Their improvisations appear like a poetic mirror for the psychical sensitivity of Armenians. DIRECTOR'S STATEMENT "What happens after the empire? - All know and expect it in the advance, only one thing they don't know: Despite the destruction, the disintegration, the humiliation, the social catastrophes of the war... despite the poverty, the betrayal... despite the annihilation of all bases of the life - the music sounds, and how it sounds! Higher and higher, over the human sorrow and over the pain! It is also one, daily practiced mental attitude, stand and exercise, that awakens a hope in the abandoned and in those, who already has lost the last hope. The film reports on the drummers, who can drum with the cut-off hands the way that... . About... that it is easy to go over the water, try it once in the air". Don Askarian
CREDITS
Script writer, director, editor Don Askarian Cameraman Artak Markaryan Production manager Nune Hovhannisyan Sound Vardan Babayan	Assistants of director Aschot Gevorkyan Mikael Vatinyan Computer editing Arthur Tarposchyan Driver Manasar Movsissyan Commissioning editor Achim Forst - 3 sat
About "The Musicians": I am very pleased indeed that we will have two world premieres of your films in the festival. I looked at Musicians the other day, and thought it was stunning and really liked what seemed to be the 'informal' structure moving between musicians and everyday sights and events. Simon Field Director of the International Film Festival Rotterdam Musicians is a nearly wordless look at the diverse strands of music found on the streets and in the clubs of Armenia today, and at the musicians who create it out of chaos. Percussionists perched in bombed-out buildings, accordionists in subway stops, brass bands roaming ancient streets, even ravers and DJs in strobe-lit dance clubs: the film captures the full range of the sounds - and the sights - of its nation's musical expression. For the director, an Armenian dissident jailed in 1975 and exiled in 1978, Musicians reveals not just the songs, but the hope within them. Jason Sanders Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/ifetch?PFA_Filmnotes+1962515938156+F
I saw your new film entitled Musician in Yamagata. I found it very much wonderful, powerful and serene. I was so impressed... . I do hope new film will be distributed around the world. Mikiro Kato University of Kyoto
Musicians by Don Askarian Senza parole. Just images of musicians and Armenian streets. There is no beauty to see, and because of that the movie is beautiful. http://tsja.editthispage.com

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