Arthur Manukyan


Arthur Manukyan is an Armenian director and producer. He is known for being the producer and director of music videos of Armenian singers. He directed dozens of television projects and events.

Biography

Arthur Manukyan was born on July 4, 1985, in Vagharshapat, Armenia. He finished Middle School in 2002 during which he was also attending to classes in Yerevan Dancing Art State College. He studied film directing in the Yerevan State Institute of Theatre and Cinematography from 2002 to 2008. In 2006, he won the Special Award at the "I am" film festival. From 2008, he started to work at the Public Radio of Armenia as the speaker of "Arevik" children and youth ensemble. From 2009 to 2011, he was the director of the "Witness" television program at the Public Television Company of Armenia. He started to work for ATV channel from 2009 as the director of "Good Morning", "The Flight", "Musical Box", "Pop Encyclopedia" and "Cosmic Show" programs. From 2011 to 2012, he worked for "ArmNews" channel as a director. He has directed TV programs and mass events, such as the Armenian Stages of International Song Contest "Eurovision", New Year programs", concerts, concert of "Amaras" dance band, "Live in concert" by Erik Karapetyan, Martin Mkrtchyan's concert at the Dolby Theater live-performance auditorium, solo concerts of Saro Tovmasyan, Hripsime Hakobyan and Noro ) and advertisement. He has directed around 40 music video. He worked with many Armenian artists, such as Arame, André, Razmik Amyan, Emmy, Silva Hakobyan, Martin Mkrtchyan, Hasmik Karapetyan, Erik Karapetyan, Hripsime Hakobyan, Iveta Mukuchyan, Armenchik, Armnika, Maro, Nune Yesayan, Lilit Hovhannisyan, Christine Pepelyan, Mihran Tsarukyan, Arpi Gabrielyan, Nadezhda Sargsyan, Arthur Grigoryan, Avet Barseghyan, Anna Avanesyan and so on.
From 2013 he started to work or Armenia TV as the director of "Nane" program. He was nominated and won the "Best Director of Year" title at the World Armenian Entertainment Awards. He started to work at the Public Television Company of Armenia as a director where he directed the "Woman by Fate" and "Benefice" programs. In 2016, he directed the "Almighty Singer" program. During 2017-2018 he directed the "Destinies Beyond the Ocean" TV program.։ In 2019 he organized the opening ceremony of ConIFA Artsakh 2019. Armenian phase of Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2019, RA Prime Minister's "Hero of Our Time" Award Ceremony in Gyumri Black Berd, Opening Ceremony of "Erebuni-Yerevan 2801" Official Event.

Music videos of Eurovision

Eurovision 2017

On March 18, 2017, the music video of Fly with Me was premiered, and it was announced that it will be the song of Armenian in Eurovision Song Contest 2017. Arthur Manukyan was the director of the music video of that song.
According to Arthur Manukyan, the song conveyed so much emotion and at the same time caused so many different emotions that he decided to use different symbols in the music video:
According to the Armenian version of the official website of Eurovision Song Contest, the music video also retains the song's melodic line and attempts to present different ethnic features. Performances and light effects reflected the sun's rays, which, as the song says, shine at the same temperature for everyone.

Eurovision 2018

In December 2017, Khanagyan was announced as one of the competitors in Depi Evratesil 2018, the Armenian national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest 2018. On 16 January 2018, his song "Qami" was premiered. Khanagyan competed in the second semi-final of Depi Evratesil on 22 February 2018, and became one of the five qualifiers to advance to the final on 25 February. On 25 February, the song was chosen as the winner of the competition. The director of the music video of this song is Arthur Manukyan.
On 16 March 2018, a teaser of the music video was uploaded to Eurovision's official YouTube channel. It premiered on the same channel on 21 March.

Eurovision 2019

The music video for "Walking Out", a song by Armenian singer Srbuk which represented Armenia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2019 in Tel Aviv, Israel, directed by Arthur Manukyan, was teased on 8 March 2019. It was released on Eurovision's official YouTube channel on March 10. The music video was filmed in Armenfilm studio by Factory production.
According to Srbuk:
According to Arthur Manukyan,
The music video mostly received positive reviews and has over 6 million views on YouTube.։

Eurovision 2020/ Europe Shine A Light

In March 2020, he again directed the music video for Armenia's Eurovision entry, the Hip Hop and R&B inspired song Chains on You by Greek-Armenian singer-songwriter Athena Manoukian, which had been selected after winning The Armenian selection in February 2020. The video was released on March 13, and largely sees her in two surroundings - in front of, and on top of, a giant diamond, and on a throne.
Whilst Eurovision Song Contest 2020 was cancelled the following week, the music video, which had earned widespread praise from fans, would be featured in replacement entertainment such as and Eurovision Song Celebration, and got over 4 million youtube views as of May 26 2020. In a poll on the fan website Wiwibloggs, it was voted for by fans as their second favourite music video out of the would-be 2020 entries.

Works

Filmography

Awards