My thesis film at MOME is a short silent film adaptation of an Armenian folk tale. The project was inspired by a music composition of Péter Tornyai: TRITON. This work is based on an Armenian instrument called duduk which lead me to the unique culture of this country and its' folk tales. The story of Three Wise Men is about 3 men with extraordinary skills in observation and deduction - just like some ancient Sherlock Holmes. However they use their talent only for their success or glory and somehow forget to help to the people in trouble.

The story has a lot of disturbing contradiction and a rather cynical moral lesson. I wanted to articulate the ambiguous nature of the tale with heterogenuous hybrid film style which includecollage techniques, animation, stop motion, highspeed video, etc . This complex visual atmosphere tries to urge the receivers to read between the lines and focus on the little details. The main visual inspiration of the film was the art of different collage artists (e.g. Ashkan Honarvar).