Film
A Portrait of Arshile
1995Directed by Atom Egoyan
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- Released
- Runtime
- 4m
About A Portrait of Arshile
- Documentary
Synopsis
Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
- Director
- Atom Egoyan
- Writer
- Atom Egoyan
