A Portrait of Arshile (movie)
- User score: 8
- Production country: Canada, United Kingdom
- Producer: Atom Egoyan
- Production companies: Ego Film Arts
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/1/1995
- Run time: 4 min.
Movie description
Egoyan juxtaposes home-video images of his son Arshile with a self-portrait of the famed Armenian artist, Arshile Gorky; Egoyan narrates in English, while his wife narrates in Armenian. The self-portrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of self-awareness, artistic expression, and the relationship between the artist and the viewer.
