Tuesday, April 24th - 5:30 pm - Bell Auditorium Director: Garine Torossian Director Invited Into the richy-layered culture of ancient and post-Soviet Armenia, a woman of the diaspora embarks on a journey of discovery, encountering the country for the first time, distilling the realities vs. what she has constructed over her lifetime about the place of her family and their ancestors. Woven into her narrative are the insights and poetic reflections of Canadian-Armenian actress Arsinée Khanjian as she confronts Armenia for the fourth time.

Looking for truth she finds community with the dispossessed of the country and their shared search for home. Stone Time Touch spirals gently through the landscape to witness poignant and engaging fragments of Armenian life, from the joyful and earthy celebrations of a village wedding to the sobering recollections of a genocide survivor. These are the voices of a society that is at once vitally present – lively, magical, and hard;  yet powerfully spiritual, wounded and scripted in stone. Toronto artist Torossian’s experimental documentary essay literally steps into the physicality of Armenia via still images, collages, and interviews.  The film is composed of two journeys and two points of view:  one is the tourist who drifts through and takes pictures, the other who has been there many times -- this is the analytical journey.

In Armenian & English with English subtitles, Canada, 72 minutes, 2007, BetaSP.

Presented with support from: Cafesjian Foundation.