Emily Mkrtichian
Cinematographer, Director, Producer
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About Me
Emily Mkrtichian is an Armenian-American filmmaker and writer whose films touch on themes of Memory, Place and Identity. Her work includes the immersive, multimedia installation Luys i Luso, created in collaboration with Tigran Hamasyan, an exploration music’s effect on spaces that were lost to a genocide a century before. The installation has traveled to Munich (Unterfahrt), Armenia, NYC (BRIC Arts), LA (Arts Activation fund recipient for public art), Istanbul (DEPO Gallery), and Sophia, Bulgaria (European Capital of Culture) . Emily directed the sci-fi short Transmission about an activist couple searching for each other between worlds (World Premiere BFI Flare); and she just completed the short documentary Motherland (World Premiere Full Frame Film Festival, Camden IFF, Brooklyn IFF, Hot Springs FF, BendFilm, Big Sky IFF) about the women who shake tradition and risk their lives to rid their country of landmines leftover from an ethnic war. Emily has been a Flaherty Seminar Fellow, a LA Arts Activation Fund recipient, a UnionDocs Summer Lab Fellow, and participated in the Torino Film Lab. She is currently working on her first feature documentary film There Was, There Was Not.