„sayat-nova” – iniţiere în tainele vieţii şi artei

The study is a breakthrough operated with the means of ethnographic, plastic and intercultural analysis in the works of the Armenian filmmaker Serghei Paradjanov, made from the perspective of his nucleus film ”Sayat-Nova”. The atypical hermeneutical method is meant to decipher an atypical cinematic language, which does not allow to be decorticated according to the usual film codes. ”Sayat-Nova”, this resonator of Paradjanov, is considered the last great medieval Armenian poet and the most representative Caucasian poet since the XVIII century. The stages of the hero’s life are presented vertically to the relationship of man with God, in the definition of which all the stylistic means of the film compete through some revealing pictures. The ”Sayat-Nova” biographical poem is literally a dense and nonlinear depiction of symbolic objects, evoking the great themes reiterated throughout the director’s creation: love, pure beauty, death, sacrifice, and eternal life. These aspects are analysed from a new aesthetic-artistic perspective. The text adapts fragments from the author’s book, ”Scara raiului în cinema. Kusturica, Tarkovski, Paradjanov” (Bucharest: “Arca Învierii” Publishing House, 2011).