Armen Ra
Actor · Tehran, Iran
Armen Ra (born Armen Hovanesian) is an Iranian-American artist, thereminist, cross-dresser, and performer.
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Movie6.0MusicDocumentaryGlamorously eccentric and enigmatic Theremin master Armen Ra recounts his dynamic journey in this life-spanning documentary that mixes rare concert performances, candid interviews, and archive material with the magical power of music that can alchemize ancient sorrow into timeless beauty.
MovieDocumentaryA group of young lost rebellious outsiders are given a home in New York City by Emmy Award-winning fashion stylist, Patricia Field, and together take on the world, changing it forever. Field, has done a lot more than Sex and the City. She has spent several decades saving lives and giving hope to lost outsiders who society frowned upon--transsexuals, club kids, drag queens, gay teenagers, butch-dykes, people who needed to escape from their hometowns because they were never understood. This is the story of a close-knit unconventional family in New York that has single-handedly changed music and fashion for the world several times over. Toronto filmmaker, Mars Roberge, has spent a decade becoming one with them so that their story could be told. In doing so, he becomes part of their family.
MovieDocumentaryMusicTheremin Fever is a quirky gem of a documentary, shot over the course of Texas' first theremin festival. The film highlights five amazing thereminists: Dorit Chrysler, Armen Ra, Rob Schwimmer, Randy George and Thomas Grillo.
Theremin Fever
2018
Movie5.1DocumentaryConceived as an electronic road movie, this documentary investigates cutting edge technologies and their influence on our culture as we approach the 21st century. It takes off from the idea that mankind's effort to tap the power of Nature has been so successful that a new world is suddenly emerging, an artificial reality. Virtual Reality, digital and biotechnology, plastic surgery and mood-altering drugs promise seemingly unlimited powers to our bodies, and ourselves. This film presents the implications of having access to such power as we all scramble to inhabit our latest science fictions.
Synthetic Pleasures
1995 · 7 votes
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A 1940s campy film noir sex romp comedy thriller. Harlem, Chinatown, Park Ave. It’s the same old story. Boy meets girl, boy gets dead, girl gets rich. Real rich. With Bill Rice, George Kuchar, James Tigger! Ferguson, Armen Ra, Mimi Gross, Megan Pearson, Mariana Newhard, Kimberly Lewis, Meghan Love, Jenny Weaver, Amalia Rosa, and Royston Scott. Music by Marc Ribot and Brett Flute. — Anthology Film Archives