Rediscover: Palms - Spectrum Culture

Rediscover: Palms - Spectrum Culture

Artur Aristakisian did not intend to make a film. He simply felt he had to record footage, wandering around his native Kishinev (now Chișinău) with a camera during the strange and fractured time of perestroika. He might have gone on filming endlessly: the disabled and people living with mental health issues. Eventually, though, this footage became a film, and this film made a sudden splash, winning in Berlin and at the Nika Awards, heralding Ari…