What Can I Tell You, We Lost Everything
Ara Oshagan and Micheline Aharonian Marcom
Three-channel film, 5:41 mins
2024
What Can I Tell You, We Lost Everything is a layered and palimpsestic work of reckoning by two Armenian diasporan artists—a novelist and a visual artist. They 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: film, text, archive, sound and video footage collected by a displaced family in Artsakh before their displacement. It is recorded and edited by Oshagan and the oral history is edited by Marcom.