BOBO (The Bogeyman)

A film by NARINE MKRTCHYAN and ARSEN AZATYAN
BOBO (The Bogeyman)
Synopsis
The film is dedicated to the renowned film director Sergey Paradjanov; to the unfolding memory of a man who was refereed to as a genius, a gay, a mime, a tradesman, a saint. The film possesses no plain and logical plot line and altogether breaks away from the ordinary conception of any film genre.
It is a psychoanalysis of the nether-world essence of the great master, a search for other dimensions about which we dare not even sometimes speculate.
Bobo is also peculiar in that it uses the entire material of the master’s last unfinished film “Confession” accompanied by Paradjanov’s confession why he closed down the film, left it unfinished.
“Hell and Heaven” this is the problem that preoccupies us in the film BOBO.
Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
Bobo is lovingly shot and relentless in its solidarity with the visionary Armenian filmmaker as he struggles to complete what would have been his swan song with a powerful, piercing cry.
The death of Paradjanov is an irrecoverable loss to the cinema, but this document at least brings us a final, vivid picture, lest we should even think of forgetting.
Don Ranvaud
CAST & CREW
BOBO
Narine Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
Berlin International Film Festival 1992
Armenia
1991
35mm
67′
Armenian
Narine Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
Aysor-Plus Film Productions
Aysor-Plus Film Productions
Narine Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
Albert Yavuryan
Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
Sergey Parajanov, Albert Yavuryan, Nariné Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan, Alena Varjapetyan, Areg Azatyan
Giovanni Pergolesi, Atlantic Transit Band
Narine Mkrtchyan, Arsen Azatyan
Armen Sahakyan