Bio - Armine Vosganian

Armine Vosganian

Biography

Armine Vosganian is a Romanian- Armenian actress and film director. She has graduated from both Theatre Acting and Film Directing in 2014 at National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest, Romania and a MA Film Making degree at London Film School, UK. As a writer/director she has made several project such as documentary series ( Amintiri din Comunitate, 2017-), short fiction (Ishtar, 2020 | Lilith, 2019 | Lovage Bundle, 2014 | Happy Birthday, 2013) and music videos (Into myPlanet, Into myGong Self, 2019-)

Armine Vosganian has graduated from both Theatre Acting and Film Directing in 2014 at National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest, Romania and a MA Film Making degree at London Film School, UK. Three of UNATC projects she has directed: Happy Birthday (original short fiction), When death ceases to come (documentary based on the story of a survival of the Armenian Genocide) and The Lovage Bundle (docu-drama based on coal miner uprising in Bucharest after the revolution) were shown in several Romanian and Armenian festivals in Romania and abroad. The controverted dissertation project “Lilith”, produced by London Film School, which explores the inner conflict of a Romanian woman who practices BDSM, will have its premiere this fall.

Armine has been working closely with her parents, adapting her father’s prose and poetry, and combining her mother’s music with well-known Romanian bands for her films. The family had worked together on operas which were performed at the National Opera of Bucharest.

At the moment, Mihaela and Armine Vosganian are the founders of the musical movement of Archetypal Transrealism, launching an album of sound therapy entitled Into MyGong Self. This album has been transformed in a performance by the same name which implies live music, dance and a bronze sculpture installation. Into MyGong Self was presented in Romania, Serbia and Czech Republic.

According to this esthetic movement, Armine has directed the syncretic show entitled Into myPlanet, a performance that combines animation, Nasa transcoded sounds of planets, original score, life kinect dance and shot footage. This project is on its way of being performed in Planetariums.

Theatre

In terms of theatre, in 2014, Armine becomes a co-founder of a theatre company, along with her classmates, called RAMPA where she’s been working as an actress, playwriter and producer. In 2016, Rampa was invited to International Youth Arts Festival in Kingston, London to perform one of their Armenian-Romanian historical black comedies, Staipelochian. This play is inspired by the novel “The Book of Whispers” by Varujan Vosganian, work which led to his three times nomination for the Nobel Prize, representing Romania, Armenia and Israel.

In 2015, Armine and Marina Hanganu, a Central School of Speech and Drama graduate, produced one of the first telematic one woman shows in Romania. This idea was then transformed into telematic performing education in several high schools across Romania entitled Tele-City.

This year, Armine has stepped into a state theatre, The Comedy Theatre, where she can be seen in the musical Suicide Shop by Jean Teule as Lucrece, directed by Marina Hanganu.

Film

In terms of film, Armine is focusing now on directing a docu-series on Armenian Diasporas entitled as a work in progress Memory of community, a project which follows the past and present of one of the most important diasporas in Romania, spread around the country.

Education

Armine Vosganian is a Romanian-Armenian actress and film director. She has graduated from both Theatre Acting and Film Directing in 2014 at National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest, Romania and a MA Film Making degree at London Film School, UK. As a writer/director she has made several project such as documentary series ( Amintiri din Comunitate, 2017-), short fiction (Ishtar, 2020 | Lilith, 2019 | Lovage Bundle, 2014 | Happy Birthday, 2013) and music videos (Into myPlanet, Into myGong Self, 2019-)

Armine has been working closely with her parents, adapting her father’s prose and performing concerts with her mother. The family had worked together on operas which were performed at the National Opera of Bucharest. In the present, Mihaela and Armine Vosganian are the founders of the musical movement of Archetipal Transrealism.

In 2014, Armine becomes a co-founder of a theatre company, along with her classmates, called RAMPA where she’s been working as an actress, playwriter and producer. Rampa is well known for staging first hand in Romania work such as Sugar Kremlin by Vladimir Sorokin, The Name by Jon Fosse, Staipelochian, based on The Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian and The Flower Show by Istvan Orkeny.

Armine has co-produced and acted in one of the first telematic one woman shows in Romania and other educational projects within Tele Encounters company. They also worked on musicals such as “The Suicide Shop” based on Jean Teule’s novel.

At the moment, Armine is in the making of docu-series exploring Armenian Diasporas and works as a PhD candidate and assistant professor at the National University of Theatrical Arts and Cinematography in Bucharest.

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