World Cinematography Contribution Prize to be awarded to legendary director Artavazd Peleshyan

Russia’s St. Petersburg is hosting the 34th Message to Man International Film Festival. This year, the Prize for Contribution to World Cinematography will be presented to legendary director and cinematic visionary Artavazd Peleshyan.

Film scholars have described Peleshyan as “the man who redefined the laws of cinema, an elemental force in filmmaking akin to Dziga Vertov and Sergei Eisenstein.”

Among his admirers were Francis Ford Coppola, Jean-Luc Godard, Godfrey Reggio, Andrei Ujică, singer Patti Smith, philosopher Paul Virilio, and photographer Raymond Depardon.