Description:
Guns
are not killers. They are pieces of metal that can be reassembled
into anything, including a little boy, a bird or a rose. Just as they
make them, we can unmake them, one by one.
Biography:
Born in St. Petersburg, Russia, Irina Patkanian is an award winning filmmaker, a Fulbright and MacDowell Fellow, and the president and cofounder “In Parenthesis” - a nonprofit film, theater and media arts company. Irina’s films have screened and won awards at more than a 100 film festivals, incl. DOC NYC, Ann Arbor, STARZ Denver, Palm Springs, Hot Springs and many others. Her work has been supported by fellowships and grants from New York State Council of the Arts, Tow, Blaustein, Troy and Jerome Foundations. Irina teaches filmmaking at Brooklyn College/ CUNY. She is a currently working on the documentary film opera “Iphigenia: the First Refugee” about a woman’s experience of war, written by Lisa Schlesinger, scored by Kinan Azmeh and with mise-en-scene directed by Marion Schoevaert.
