A Portrait of Arshile

Egoyan juxtaposes homevideo images of his son Arshile with a selfportrait of the famed Armenian artist Arshile Gorky Egoyan narrates in English while his wife narrates in Armenian The selfportrait made from a photo of the artist as a child at the time of the great massacre of the Armenians is used as a focus for meditations on the nature of selfawareness artistic expression and the relationship between the artist and the viewer