WE AND OUR MOUNTAINS
Symposium
Everything occurs here rather unremarkably: shepherds recite from "Othello" and tend sheep, one of them ends up on the grill. The fact that this leads to conflict – a criminal case even, in the midst of this idyllic Armenian mountain setting, has an awful lot to do with the law. In Henryk Malyan's poetic, zen-like cult satire, the relationship between individual, community, power and state is not laid out from A to Z, but instead interrogated with subtle humour and a spirit of interpretive openness. The title refers to a famous monument erected in 1967 – one could rename it "We and the Mountains and the Soviet Union".
Everything occurs here rather unremarkably: shepherds recite from "Othello" and tend sheep, one of them ends up on the grill. The fact that this leads to conflict – a criminal case even, in the midst of this idyllic Armenian mountain setting, has an awful lot to do with the law. In Henryk Malyan's poetic, zen-like cult satire, the relationship between individual, community, power and state is not laid out from A to Z, but instead interrogated with subtle humour and a spirit of interpretive openness. The title refers to a famous monument erected in 1967 – one could rename it "We and the Mountains and the Soviet Union".
