by Ara Oshagan and Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Three-channel film, 5:41 mins, 2024
What Can I Tell You, We Lost Everything is a layered, palimpsestic, and multi-disciplinary work of reckoning. Two Armenian diasporan artists—a novelist and a visual artist—collaborate to consider the before and afterlives of the recent violent displacement of over 100,000 indigenous Armenians from the Karabagh/Artsakh region of the Armenian Highlands in 2023. Their own histories of displacement and inherited memory and trauma are entangled in the construction of this deeply personal as well as collective narrative.
This three-channel film brings together various elements—moving image, text, archive and sound—to create a multi-sensory collage about the experience of displaced Artsakhis in Armenia today. The film’s video is captured by Oshagan and oral history is edited by Marcom. It also includes video footage collected by a displaced family in Artsakh.