Influences and Legacy
Despite having studied film at the VGIK, he discovered his artistic path only after seeing Andrei Tarkovsky's dreamlike first film Ivan's Childhood. Parajanov had many admirers of his art but, as in the case of Orson Welles (another unique artist) his vision did not attract many followers. "Whoever tries to imitate me is lost", he reportedly said once. However there are directors like Theo Angelopoulos, Béla Tarr and Mohsen Makhmalbaf who share Parajanov's approach to film as a visual medium opposed to a narrative tool like literature.
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