Paradzhanov is a mythical character known to everybody (intellectual, that is) of my generation. People who came before us (and maybe some of us) really knew him. I only know his movies and his art.

I think we found him originally through Pasolini (in turn, mostly courtesy of Derek Jarman), but I can't imagine not knowing about him now. I have just found three short films of his on the internet and I am very curious.

What is his other art like? I imagine the same dreamlike, iconic collages as his movies, but he will probably turn out to have done something completely different.

There is a new-old version of The Color of Pomegranates (the original author's version restored in 2014, the widely-seen version was edited by another filmmaker

Thanks for the link! We would have watched whatever version was available in the U.S. in 2011. The tableaux were striking and definitive even then.