The Peculiarity of the Visual Autofiction of Sergei Parajanov

Abstract

In this article, a number of works by Sergei Parajanov are considered within the context of such type of writing and movement in fiction and arts as autofiction. The objective of this article is to identify various types of autofictionality, common in both Parajanov's feature films (“Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors”, “The Color of Pomegranates”, “Kyiv Frescoes”), and his performative projects, collages, assemblages, scenarios (“The Confession”), the epistolary text corpus, etc. The analysis of Parajanov’s artistic heritage through the prism of visual autofiction contributes to a more precise definition of the place and significance of the filmmaker’s works in the world artistic culture of the second half of the 20th century.