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Responding to the sudden onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, Resurrection Myth is a poetic meditation on alienation, dread and the possibility of (un)imagined futures. Weaving darkness and light, in both word and imagery, the film’s foreboding and hypnotic rhythm explores questions of history, current-day societal crises, love of another (man), technology, indigenous rights, good/evil and apocalyptic ends. Echoes of cataclysms, extinctions and resurrections recur throughout the film like a silent dialogue. 

 

The film also considers possible redemptions in another trance-like recurring narrative, that of Pokr Mher. This mythological anti-hero of the Armenian National Epic, David of Sassoon, has retreated to a sealed cave on Raven’s Rock, where he awaits to one day return and, prophet-like, judge humanity.

 

Resurrection Myth is written in English but narrated in Western Armenian, a language currently on the UN endangered language list and perhaps on the brink of extinction. The film’s use of Western Armenian temporarily resurrects the language, but could also point to its inevitable end.

  • Year
    2021
  • Runtime
    00:04:16
  • Language
    Armenian
  • Country
    United States
  • Note
    Translation: Ani Boyadjian; Narration: Sako Berberian
  • Director
    Ara Oshagan
  • Screenwriter
    Christopher Atamian
  • Producer
    Ara Oshagan, Christopher Atamian
  • Cast
    Shahan & Aren Oshagan