Harutyun Khachatryan chose his nation’s 19th century poet, Ashugh Jivani, as his film’s central spirit
A work of tactile sensuality, it nominally depicts the step-by-step creation of a monumental statue of the poet that ends up traveling on the back of a truck through the Armenian countryside. From this Khachatryan conjures a transcendental cinematic experience to evoke the soul of the director’s beloved country and its people.