critics, to be Seasons of the Year ( Tarva yeghanaknere) (1975), shot by cinematographer Mikhail Vartanov. It is a look at the contradiction and harmony between humans and nature and was the last collaboration between Peleshian and Vartanov, Armenia's two most important documentary auteurs, who first worked together on The Autumn Pastoral ( Ashnanayin hovvergutyun) (1971). Peleshyan is also the author of a range of theoretical works, such as his 1988 book, My Cinema ( Moyo kino). Being from a country removed from internationally significant cinema circles, Peleshyan's efforts were not initially well-recognized by critics of world cinema. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, he has made two more short films, Life ( Kyanq) (1993) and The End (1994). He is now living in Moscow. His most recent film, Nature (), was edited at the ZKM | Karlsruhe Film Institute in 2005-2006 and was premiered in 2020. Personal commentary In 1998, Peleshyan reflected on his approach to filmmaking and cinematography, "It's about what I'm striving for, what we're all striving for - every person, humanity [...] the wishes and desires of the people to ascend, to transcend [...] I was thinking of everything. It's not specifically the seasons of the year or of people: it's everything [...] Eisenstein's montage was linear, like a chain. Distance montage creates a magnetic field around the film [...] Sometimes I don't call my method 'montage'. I'm involved in a process of creating unity. In a sense I've eliminated montage: by creating the film through montage, I have destroyed montage. In the totality, in the wholeness of one of my films, there is no montage, no collision, so as a result montage has been destroyed. In Eisenstein every element means something. For me the individual fragments don't mean anything anymore. Only the whole film has the meaning [...] For me, distance montage opens up the mysteries of the movement of the universe. I can feel how everything is made and put together; I can sense its rhythmic movement." Filmography As director Mountain Vigil (1964) Earth of People (1966) The Beginning (1967) Dream (1968) We (1969) Inhabitants (1970) Stellar Minute (1972) Seasons of the Year (1975) Our Century (1982) God in Russia (1984) The End (1992) Life (1993) Nature (2020) As screenwriter The Autumn Pastoral (1971) (directed by Mikhail Vartanov) Homo Sapiens (1979) Desert (1984) As actor We and Our Mountains (1969) (as Revaz) The