YEREVAN FOR THE TIME BEING
Susanna, Robert, Mariam and Mr. Hekekyan with the choir "Little Singers of Armenia" are immediate neighbours of one of Yerevan's biggest construction sites. They have all lived and/or worked at this site in the centre of the Armenian capital for years. Susanna lives now in a construction trailer, parked in the backyard of the house where she used to live. Robert and Mariam live in their flat with a wall directly adjacent to the construction pit. And the club rooms of "Little Singers of Armenia" are located in a part of the house whose outer wall recently began to collapse. All these neighbours have one thing in common: their living situation and their place of work are literally insecure. Aysor or vaghe, today or tomorrow, maybe they will have to leave, too.
In "Yerevan for the Time Being", observations on the large construction site are confronted with the housing situation and everyday life of three immediate neighbours. The film also portrays the people involved with the construction site - a group of construction workers, the architect of the project and the site manager. In addition, the melancholic microcosm of a precarious living space opens up, which has to be defended in times of gentrification, or even just kept for the sake of watching:
Everything is only temporary, everything has its time - but the lifetimes of cities, neighbourhoods, houses and their inhabitants vary.
Category: Documentary
From: Lea Fröhlicher
Status: In distribution
Production Year: 2021
Language: Armenian, English, French
Subtitles: E or D
Duration: 64 min
Format: DCP
Sound: 5.1 Surround
CREDITS
Book, Director, Camera
Lea Fröhlicher
Set sound
Salome Wüllner
Interpreter on location
Maria Mkrtchyan
Add. Interpreter on location
Karin Grigoryan
Editor
Fabrizio Fracassi
Music, Sound Design
Pascal Schärli
Sound Design, re-recording mix
Patrick Becker, NurTon GmbH
Foley artist
Otger Kunert
Colour grading
Piet Esch
Translations Armenian-German
Mariam Gurzadyan, Karin Grigoryan, Vilena Hambardzumyan, Maria Balayan
Transcriptions Armenian
Levon Khachatryan, Diana Vardanyan, Vilena Hambardzumyan, Mariam Gurzadyan
Translation Russian-English
Alexander Ter-Gabrielyan
Translation, post-production
Inesa Grigoryan
Production
point de vue DOC, Lea Fröhlicher
mentors
Reinhard Manz, Andreas Weber
Accounting
Judith Huber
Subtitles
Manuela Vonwiller, ZAXAPH
Graphics
HerendiArtemisio with Simon Meier
SUPPORT
With financial support from
Lottery Fund Solothurn Canton
Film and Media Art Committee of the of Basel-Stadt and Basel-Landschaft Cantons
Däster-Schild Foundation
Annemarie Schindler Foundation
Armenian General Benevolent Union
Solothurn City
DISTRIBUTION
akku Kunstplattform Emmenbrücke, im Rahmen der Ausstellung ‹Ohne Haut – ohne Haus›, mit Gespräch mit Bauarbeiter:innen, 07.09.2023
Ankauf, dot.Mov.bl, Sammlung Neue Medien Baselland, 2023
Kunsthaus Baselland, Teil der Ausstellung ‹Homes. Die Mehrzahl von Zuhause›, Regionale 23, 27.11.2022-08.01.2023
Kunstraum Baden, mit Gespräch, 22.05.2022
kult.kino Basel, in Kooperation mit dem SAM, mit Diskussionsrunde, 16.03.2022
Kino Xenix Zürich, in Kooperation mit dem Literaturhaus Zürich, mit Filmgespräch, 04.03.2022
Kunsthaus Centre d‘Art Pasquart Biel, Teil der Ausstellung ‹Cantonale 2021›, 05.12.-16.01.2022
Ethnokino Bern, Kino in der Reitschule, mit Filmgespräch, 11.11.2021
Filmpodium Biel, in Kooperation: Architekturforum Biel-Bienne, mit Diskussionsrunde, 02.11.2021
Studio 20, Yerevan AM, 08.10.2021
Institute for Archaeology and Ethnography, im Rahmen eines Seminars im «Departement of Contemporary Anthropological Studies», mit Filmgespräch, 07.10.2021
AGBU Yerevan AM, mit Filmgespräch, 02.10.2021
A. Johannissyan Research Institute in Humanities, Yerevan AM, mit Filmgespräch, 28.09.2021
Kino Uferbau, Solothurn, 29.8., in Kooperation mit dem Architekturforum, mit Diskussionsrunde, 30.8. 05.09.
Jour fixe, artasfoundation, Zürich, mit Filmgespräch, 18.08.2021
DOWNLOADS
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