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When Tarkovsky inscribed and sent his child’s drawing to the imprisoned Parajanov who annotated and forwarded it to the blacklisted Vartanov for his son Martiros, he became their disciple — Boy With A Movie Camera.

His first film, The Last Film, dedicated to them, was released by Criterion, and his new film will be based on his book Boy With A Movie Camera.

He worked with The Film Foundation on the restoration of Parajanov’s masterpiece The Color of Pomegranates, and, with UCLA, on the restoration of Vartanov’s masterwork Parajanov: The Last Spring, thanks to the support of Grammy-winning rock band System Of A Down and Oscar-winning director Francis Ford Coppola.

He also curates DOC LA, Los Angeles Documentary Film Festival, organized by the Parajanov-Vartanov Institute in Hollywood, and presents its annual awards whose honorees include such luminaries as Martin Scorsese and Emma Thompson.

Martiros Vartanov presented the new 4K restoration of Mikhail Vartanov’s acclaimed film Parajanov: The Last Spring at National Gallery of Art in Washington DC on 03/08/25.

Earlier, he was a member of the jury at the 37th IDFA in Amsterdam and also introduced the Dutch premiere of The Last Spring.

Prior to that he had unveiled the film’s restoration at The (Oscars) Academy Museum in Los Angeles, the European premiere at Oslo Cinematheque’s Parajanov & Vartanov Retrospective, and the New York premiere at the Museum of Moving Image.