Armenia – Invisible Country
Mariam Ohanyan
The British Museum in London holds a large collection of early-history artefacts from Armenia, including a head in bronze of the Armenian goddess Anahit. Searching for this exhibition piece, director Mariam Ohanyan finds only a hall with the signage: Ancient Turkey. However, that entity did not exist at the time when many of the exhibits were created. Armenia – Invisible Country casts light on this historical misrepresentation under ethnological aspects.
Mariam Ohanyan
Mariam Ohanyan was born in Yerevan, Armenia. Having graduated from the Department of Applied Mathematics at Yerevan State University, she took a post-graduate course in film in the Department of Sociology. Her films have been shown at various festivals and won prizes. Larger Than Life was screened at the 2007 festival in Dortmund. Since 2002, Ms Ohanyan has been director of Liza Production and, since 2004, Director of the International Women’s Film Festival KIN, Yerevan.
Films by Mariam Ohanyan
Sea Monster 2012 | The Butterfly 2010 | Zone of Silence 2009 | Larger Than Life 2006 | The Voices 2002 | Armenian Women and Politics 2001
