Counting Անվերջ հաշիվ
View from my window. Shot on a cellphone during the COVID-19 quarantine in Montreal, almost 9 thousand kilometres away from home.
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For judging information only: the whispering heard in the video is simply me counting in Armenian. The video does not need subtitles.
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Anna GrigorianDirector
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Project Title (Original Language):Անվերջ հաշիվ
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Project Type:Experimental, Short
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Runtime:2 minutes
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Completion Date:May 16, 2020
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Country of Origin:Armenia
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Country of Filming:Canada
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Shooting Format:cellphone video
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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From My WindowOnline worldwide//digital curatorial project
June 12, 2020
Official Selection
Anna Grigorian was born in Yerevan, Armenia. Her art practice is based between Montreal and Yerevan since 2013.
Currently, she is working in the mediums of video art and installation. Employing the surreal, the uncanny and “silly”, absurdist humor, her practice revolves around questioning the power relations between individuals, and sociopolitical systems. Her pieces are aimed at disrupting the habitual, and presenting the reality under an unexpected angle.
The main inspiration for her work comes from facing and challenging accepted socioeconomic realities, unspoken rules on individual well being, fixed structures that influence and often dictate our life. Constructing absurd, surreal situations and using humor allows her to present the accepted norms, and dominant structures of our society from a different angle.
Selected exhibitions and screenings
2020 - Thessaloniki, Greece. Festival Miden (online screening because of COVID-19)
2019 MOMus-State Museum of Contemporary Art. Videoland. Screenings in Thessaloniki, Greece
2018 1st BCK Film Symposium. Balkan Can Kino, Screening in Athens, Greece
2018 ARTROC Le QUAI-développement interculturel Quartier des Arts MONTCALM; (curators: Alexandra Bérubé, Béatrice Larochelle, Kasia Basta) Quebec City, Canada
2018 "ONE SHOT" International Short Film Festival, Yerevan, Armenia
2018 Fest Miden, Video Art. Greece
2018 fliQs: Queer film night. Energy (jurors, organizers: Mélissa Tamporello, Logan James) Screening at Notre Dame Des Quilles, Montreal
2018 Altered States Intermedia Department Graduating Exhibition, Installation at Eastern Bloc, Montreal
2017 fliQs: Queer film night. Fluidity (jurors, organizers: Mélissa Tamporello, Logan James) Screening at Notre Dame Des Quilles, Montreal
2017 fliQs: Queer film night. Revolutions (jurors, organizers: Mélissa Tamporello, Logan James) Screening at Notre Dame Des Quilles, Montreal
2016 Bad Movie Night (curator: Daniel Rig) Screening at Bad Lunch, Montreal
2016 HI LATENCY (curator: Robert Scalia) Installation at The Mothership, Montreal
2016 Bring Your Own Beamer (curators: Lesya Nakoneczny, Amelia Robitaille, Michael Langiewicz) Installation at Bad Lunch, Montreal
2015 White Noise//Dark Matter Installation at Le Réacteur, Montreal
2014 Movements in the Dark (curator: Catherine Laframboise Desjardin) Installation at Studio 7, Montreal
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Art to Art collaborative exhibition between Art History and Studio Arts departments in Concordia. Project by Dr. Loren Lerner. Montreal
2016 Centerfold VII (curators/jurors: Brittne Potter, Sandro Papais, Adam Heard Rutledge, Nadim El-Asmar), Montreal
2016 Art Matters x Nuit Blanche (jurors: Hélène Sharp, Timothy O'Donnell Schauer) Mainline Theater, Montreal
2015 Salonesque Montreal Arts Interculturels (MAI)
2013 Through the Window Les Journees de la Culture a Montreal (curator: Natasha Henderson) Fleurbain, Montreal
2013 Pop-Up Art Expo Fringe Festival, GallerieFRINGE MTL, Montreal
2012 Fairytales in the City (curator: Natasha Henderson) Fleurbain, Montreal
2012 The Heat of Summer Montreal Art Center