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

His films include Accession (2018), which maps an informal network of letter correspondence about the exchange of seeds. 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 Zirkel Wilderness of Colorado and featured in the Millennium Film Journal and Kathryn Ramey’s book Experimental Filmmaking.

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

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He did undergraduate studies at Colby College, 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 teaches in the Visual Arts department 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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