Why is the name of the poster «Parajaev is alive? It is given for a reason. Such a name does not accurately describe the poster, it gives you to think about the meaning of the selected words, so that there is no one opinion on this matter. It is much more interesting to listen to a lot of opinions and understand how a person thinks, his guesses about what the author really had.
Stop at this point to read and try to figure out the answer yourself. Did it work?
So the answer is that „yes, he is alive.“ You ask „how?“ As you know, Parajanov died, which is why this competition is being held, in memory of the Soviet director, screenwriter, artist and one of the founders of the „poetic cinema“. He is alive in his work, which he left to us. His psychedelic films, similar to animated paintings and collages, have received many prestigious awards at European festivals, and the analysis of two of his most iconic paintings — „The Color of Pomegranate“ and „Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors“ have even become a mandatory part of the curriculum of film critics at Harvard. Therefore, the poster idea was based on the film „The Color of Pomegranate“, as it inspired me to create it.
