Alik Asatryan

A tableaux of poetry and images exploring the historical trauma, identity, and collective memory of the Armenian people centered on an Armenian filmmaker exiled in Berlin.

Armenia in the Middle Ages ... the desert ... the bell-tower of a half-destroyed church ... Martiros languishes in the desert. His heart strikes out beyond the narrow monastic circle.

A young woman wanders through a dump, collecting various items from which she constructs something – an object of adoration, or perhaps an unseen instrument through which she wants to convey her voice to the heavens.