‘There Was, There Was Not’ Team Discuss How Their Artsakh War Documentary Offers “Resistance To Erasure”
Filmmaker Emily Mkrtichian didn’t know she would be making a war documentary when she embarked on her near-decade-in-the-making feature There Was, There Was Not. What began as a project aiming to explore the lives of four disparate women in post-conflict Artsakh changed almost overnight as the long-beleaguered breakaway state, sandwiched between Azerbaijan and Armenia, became…