Irina Patkanian worked on post-production of a short stop motion animation/documentary, Little Fiel about peaceful people who are turned (literally) into guns by unending proxy civil wars. Little Fiel premiered at 2017 DOC NYC, and went on to play at more than 80 film festivals worldwide, winning 20 awards, incl. Grand Jury Prize for Best Short Film at 2019 Boulder International Film Festival, Best Short Film at Charlotte, BlackStar Film Festivals, and many others. She is the president of In Parenthesis, a non-profit film, theatre, and media arts company, supporting work of immigrant female artists since 1995.
Discipline:
Film/Video – documentary
Irina Patkanian
Discipline:
Film/Video – documentary
Region: Brooklyn, NY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2015
Studios
Mixter
Irina Patkanian worked in the Mixter studio.
Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…