Armand Yervant Tufenkian is an Armenian filmmaker and artist, born in 1988 to parents from Aleppo, Syria.

His films include Accession (2018), which maps an informal network of seed exchange through letter correspondence. It has screened at festivals such as the Viennale, Art of the Real at Lincoln Center, Mar del Plata, Underdox, and as part of the 'Reimagining the Land' retrospective at Sheffield Doc/Fest and the 'Conscious Landscapes' exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje, among others.

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Previous films include in lightning Agnes (2014), made at an elevation of ten thousand feet in the Mount Zirkel Wilderness of Colorado, and featured in the Millennium Film Journal, Kathryn Ramey’s book Experimental Filmmaking, and exhibited at the Cinema for All Pavilion at the Thailand Biennale in 2024.

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Tufenkian's work has been supported recently by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and residencies at Fogo Island Arts, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, and Monson Arts, and previously by the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, Puffin Foundation, City of Chicago's Individual Artist Program, and Creative Armenia.

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He did doctoral studies at Duke University and studied film and fine arts at the California Institute of the Arts. He works as a fire lookout in the Sequoia forest of the Sierra Nevada and is a lecturer in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of California, San Diego.

In the Manner of Smoke, a long-form observation of disparate perspectives
on forest fires, will be his next film.

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