(A Portrait of Arshile)

Content: Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.

Countries:

Canada,

United Kingdom

Genres:

Documentary

Runtime:

4 minutes

Year:

1995

Directors:

Atom Egoyan

Production companies:

Ego Film Arts

Actors:

Voice

Voice

Himself

Crews:

Writer

Director