Robert Sahakyants (1950–2009), wybitny ormiański animator, zasłynął z charakterystycznego psychodelicznego stylu wizualnego, ciętego dowcipu, satyry oraz adaptacji ormiańskich baśni, folkloru i klasyki literackiej. Do dziś Sahakyants pozostaje jedną z najbardziej wpływowych postaci radzieckiej i ormiańskiej animacji.
Ta retrospektywa to rzadka okazja do ponownego odkrycia pełnego zabawy, przekory i bogactwa wizualnego świata Roberta Sahakyantsa. Oprócz jego znanych adaptacji bajek Hovhannesa Tumanyana, program obejmuje również dzieła satyryczne i surrealistyczne, które łączą humor z ostrą społeczną krytyką. Filmy te oddają ducha ormiańskiej kultury, jednocześnie poszerzając granice animacji jako formy politycznej i poetyckiej ekspresji.
1. Hey You, Talking Fish/Khosogh dzuke
1983, Hayfilm Studio (for Central TV, Moscow), (based on the tale Talking Fish by Hovhannes Tumanyan), 10 min. (285 m), color Scr./Dir./Art Dir./Edit.: R. Sahakyants, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Music by: R. Amirkhanyan, Sound: K. Kurdiyan, Scr. Edit.: H. Beyleryan, Prod. Manag.: K. Ghukasyan.
An old man releases the talking fish he has caught. Later, having assumed the aspect of a young man, the fish appears in the house of the old man and saves him and his wife from many misfortunes.
2. Who Will Tell a Fable?/Ov kpatmi cheghats baner?
1982, Hayfilm Studio (for Central TV, Moscow), (based on the tale The Small Liar by Hovhannes Tumanyan), 10 min. (277 m), color Scr./Dir./Art Dir./Edit.: R. Sahakyants, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Music by: R. Amirkhanyan, Sound: K. Kurdiyan, Scr. Edit.: H. Beyleryan, Prod. Manag.: K. Ghukasyan.
A greedy king promises wealth to the one who tells him an incredible fable, and gets caught, in his own trap.
3. Three Blue-Blue Lakes of Crimson Color/ Moru guyniyerek kapuyt-kapuyt lchak 1981, Hayfilm Studio (for Central TV, Moscow), (based no the tale The Fibber Hunter by Hovhannes Tumanyan), 10 min. (265 m), color Scr.: R. Sahakyants, L. Sahakyants, Dir./Art Dir.: R. Sahakyants, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Music by: G. Garanyan, Sound: A. Drozhenko, B. Filchikov, Scr. Edit.: H. Beyleryan, Prod. Manag.: H. Shahapuni.
A liberal interpretation of Hovhannes Tumanyan’s tale.
4. Nazar the Brave/Kaj Nazar 1980, Hayfilm Studio, 20 min. (540 m), color Scr.: H. Grigoryan, Dir.: R. Sahakyants, Art Dir.: Ye. Prorokova, E. Avagyan, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Music by: D. Azaryan, Sound: I. Ordukhanyan, Edit.: S. Vatinyan, R. Sahakyants, Scr. Edit.: H. Beyleryan, Prod. Manag.: H. Shahapuni. ANIMATION 1978 1980 162
The ignorance of people and the guile of the priest bring idler Nazar, who used to count flies that he had killed, on the throne.
5. Kikos 1979, Hayfilm Studio, (based on the tale The Death of Kikos by Hovhannes Tumanyan), 9 min. (250 m), color Scr.: R. Sahakyants, L. Sahakyants, Dir./Art Dir.: R. Sahakyants, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Music by: Yu. Harutyunyan, Sound: V. Chaparyan, Edit.: S. Vatinyan, Prod. Manag.: S. Petrosyan.
The film tells, in a satirical manner, about the adventures and death of the imaginary son of one of the village girls.
6. Hunters/Vorsordnere 1977, Hayfilm Studio, (based on tales by Khachatur Abovyan), 10 min. (277 m), colorScr.: P. Tyurabyan, Dir./Art Dir.: R. Sahakyants, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Music by: D. Azaryan, Sound: V. Chaparyan, Songs Performed by: L. Dolina, A. Abrahamyan, S. Seyranyan
Four foolish friends - Mesrop, Kazar, Kerob and Serob go on a hunting trip. The musical animation story is based on the fairy tales of the classic writer of Armenian literature Khachatur Abovyan and involved prominent singers of Soviet Armenian jazz age such as Nadezhda Sargsyan and Larisa Dolina.'
7. Everything is fine / Vse khorosoho
1991, (based on Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise by Paul Misraki), 4 min.
Dir.R.Sahakyants, Cam:A.Kyurdian, Music by: R. Amirkhanyan
The animated film is dedicated to the “memory of the Soviet Union.”
Set to the song “Everything Is Fine, Lovely Marquise,” people wander through museums to look at food depicted in paintings; trains and ships collide, various cataclysms unfold; Yeltsin is thrown into an oncoming wave by Stepan Razin and Pavlov carries out a monetary reform…
8. In the Blue See, in the White Foam/Kapuyt tzovum, spitak prpuri mej, 1984, Hayfilm Studio (for Central TV, Moscow), 8 min. (221 m), color Scr./Dir./Art Dir./Edit.: R. Sahakyants, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Music by: R. Amirkhanyan, Sound: K. Kurdiyan, Songs Performed by: A. Kanachyan, Scr. Edit.: H. Beyleryan, Prod. Manag.: S. Petrosyan.
A musical film based on Armenian folk tales.
1987, Hayfilm Studio, 18 min. (485 m), color Scr./Dir./Art Dir.: R. Sahakyants, Cam.: A. Kyurdian, Sound: K. Kurdiyan, Scr. Edit.: H. Beyleryan, Prod. Manag.: S. Petrosyan.
Cosmonauts land on an unknown place, inhabited by strange plants and animals. The planet teaches the careless conquerors a lesson, cruel, though wise: many of them will stay forever on the planet, transmuting into the animals that they have killed.
