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Actor Armand Yervant Tufenkian

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From: Aleppo, Syria

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Armand Yervant Tufenkian is a first-generation Armenian-American filmmaker.

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Accession 2018

A film in which the story is pieced together from letters about the exchange of seeds.

In 2014, Curt Heiner, Robert Schaller, and Armand Yervant Tufenkian made a film in Colorado's Mt. Zirkel Wilderness. It briefly chronicles both a climb and the struggle to document it using a handmade photographic emulsion that was prepared and coated onto celluloid outside on a rock at night using water from a rushing creek, rolled up before dawn during a lightning storm, shot under the constant threat of more lightning, and processed carefully on-location the next night. What results is presented as it came out of the camera, the result of a collaboration between the filmmakers and the wilderness environment where they lived for a week.

In the Manner of Smoke 2025

Reverie and observation forge relations among a fire lookout in California and a landscape painter in London. With a concern for how media technology (from painting to surveillance webcams) impacts representations of forest fires and the experience of witnessing with one's own eyes, the film forms an ecology of images from distinct and ultimately interlinked perspectives.