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Garod Onnik & Ara Dinkjian
Garod Onnik & Ara Dinkjian


 
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Product Code: 1708

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Garod means longing in Armenian. Longing for a land that lost its people. Longing for the homeland. Longing for a time that is eternally lost. Garod is a story of longing. It is about the lives and the musical stories of two Armenian musicians- A father and his son, Onnik Dinkjian and Ara Dinkjian. Garod tells the story of the remaking of a musical tradition and life in Diaspora.

Onnik Dinkjian is one of the most influential Armenian singers with his unique style of singing, evoking Anatolian Armenian sound in America. Onnik Dinkjian’s family was from Diyarbakır/Dikranagert and they had to leave the country after 1915. Onnik Dinkjian was born in France and never saw his homeland until he was seventy-five. Yet he grew up in a neighborhood of Dikranagertsi Armenians listening to the stories and songs of his ‘home.’ Ara Dinkjian is a highly celebrated figure of the world music and one of the top oud players in the world. His compositions have been recorded in many different languages by top singers and musicians throughout the world.

Garod begins with the encounters of Onnik and Ara Dinkjian in, a city that has become a constitutive part of their identity. Tracing past and musical lives of these musicians, the documentary lays a bridge to Diyarbakır. Garod tells the stories of Onnik and Ara through their connections to Diyarbakır, Anatolia, Armenian Church music, and also musical relations with Sid Clark, Arto Tunçboyaciyan, Night Ark, Eleftheria Arvanitaki, Sezen Aksu, Kardeş Türküler and Ahmet Kaya. The documentary passes through different geographies and countries following the traces of a musical tradition. In this documentary, Garod means not only longing for loss but also remaking of a musical tradition and the life itself.

Language: English-Armenian

Subtitles: Turkish & English

Duration: 52 minutes


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