Stone, Time, Touch (2007)

Original title

Stone Time Touch

Directed by

Gariné Torossian

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 12m

Rated

PG

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three Armenian women from the diaspora each relate differently to the land of Armenia. One visits for the first time, another returns with a mixed perspective, and the film itself becomes a subtle third presence.

contemplativemeditativepersonalreflectivelayeredpoeticquietintimateobservational

What happens

Stone, Time, Touch is a 2007 documentary made by Gariné Torossian about the relationship of three Armenian women from the diaspora with the land of Armenia. The young woman (played by Kamee Abrahamian) is visiting Armenia for the first time. The older woman, Arsinée Khanjian has a more conflicted and analytical perspective of her identity and her relationship with the fledgling democracy, one of the former Soviet Union republics. She has been to landlocked Armenia many times and comments on photos taken by French photographer Marc Baguelin. The third trajectory is more subtle and is represented by Gariné Torossian herself, whose face is super imposed from time to time in this stylistically layered documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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