Directing

pilots by donna amini - music video

Raznik’s Hunger - SHORT DRAMA

A mysterious man suffering from anterograde amnesia (no new memories) finds himself in a neurologist’s consultation. How will he return to his far away wife if he can’t trust the help of his doctor, let alone remember what he last ate. Inspired by true events: "The Lost Mariner" by Oliver Sacks. AFTRS student film 2017. Shot in 8 hours, including wardrobe, make-up, and rehearsal.

THE UNKNOWN BY SYNTAX ERROR - MUSIC VIDEO

I DRIVE THE HEARSE - sHOrt documentary

A short doco about surviving mental illness using the catharsis of creativity. As Charles Bukowski eloquently put it, “Find what you love and let it kill you”, elucidating the paradox of self-afflicted creativity.

Outside by Other People’s Music - MUSIC VIDEO

Echoes of MY ANCESTORS - documentary

Snippet trailer of the 27-minute documentary aired on ABC-TV’s Compass program; Australian Armenian Shahane Bekarian discovers a treasure trove of archival interviews that include his grandfather. What he learns from survivors who escaped to Australia, after the Armenian Genocide of 1915, forces him to confront his own cultural inheritance.

Screenings:

ABC TV, 2018 (27min version)
Golden Apricot International Film Festival, Yerevan Armenia, 2017 (1-hour version “Children of a Genocide”)
Glendale International Film Festival, Los Angeles California, 2017 (1-hour version “Children of a Genocide”)
Sydney & Melbourne Armenian Community event, 2016 (1-hour version “Children of a Genocide”)

Genocide memoir: Boghos Tavrayan - Short DOCO

At the age of four, they took his parents away. He didn't know what happened to them, nor why his parents were abhorred. The only thing he knew was his first name.

Screenings / Awards:

Pomegranate Film Festival, Toronto Canada, 2013 - Best Short Documentary.
ARPA International Film Festival, Los Angeles California, 2012.
ANCA Genocide Commemoration, Sydney Australia, 2012.

vulnerable Heart by she plays - music video

the blind passenger - short DRAMA (trailer)

A solitary blind man struggles for independence locked in a mind numbing persistence of his memory. The Blind Passenger is a 15-minute experimental art-house psyche-thriller taken from the mind / point-of-view of a blind man.