A film about a film where a film was made, but the lead actress vanished from celluloid.
Martiros Vartanov‘s first film, entitled The Last Film, was shot at UCLA with an old Bolex movie camera on 16mm black and white Kodak film. This experimental short documentary film is dedicated to Sergei Parajanov and Mikhail Vartanov, stars Taguhi Vardanyan, and features the music of composer Armen Boyamyan. The Last Film was a semi finalist at the 41st Student Academy Awards®, had its world premiere at The Academy ® at LACMA in Hollywood with the US premiere of Parajanov’s restored Sayat Nova (The Color of Pomegranates), and was released by Criterion.
The Last Film is the first installment in Martiros M. Vartanov’s experimental UCLA trilogy with Our Turn and The Resurrection of Sayat Nova.