Gariné Torossian

Gariné Torossian

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Platform 1993

"'Platform' focuses on the meanderings of a hip prima donna (Kimberly Pike) who picks her platformed feet up from cords tangled on the floor of a studio filled with movie lights of all shapes and sizes. A tight, hard-edged and extremely self-reverential work of mixed media influences." - Donna Lypchuk, eye Magazine
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Visions 1992

A film-within-a-film exploring the body in motion, frame by frame. Built with four frames within one, half of the screen in motion, the other still, this film makes the viewer feel that they are watching a "moving picture." The sensation one gets is of tension...expectation...shock. It freezes one in a frame. The glorious, trenchant music of R. Murray Schafer in the background further adds to the intense "high" of the film.
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Girl from Moush 1994

Girl From Moush is a poetic montage of the artist's journey through her subconscious Armenia. It is not an Armenia based in a reality but one, which appears, like the mythical city of Shangri-La, when ones eyes are closed. A mesh of traditional images 'engraved' in film, with haunting voice-over, and rich colors, music and rhythms that continues long after the film is over. The viewers are engaged and forced through unchartered landscapes of uncertainty and fascination.