• It was shot over a five-year period, with most of the work done in February of 2019 and February of 2020. It covers sixty-five monastic structures, distributed over the whole of the country, and several in the disputed territory of Artsakh between Armenia and Azerbaijan, with the majority dating from the 4th century to 13th century.

  • In contrast to these richly ornamented texts, however, the structures themselves were unadorned, stern, simple, and built primarily in the remote areas—at the tops of mountains, deep gorges, edges of cliffs, and inside caves — far from the war-ridden roads of civilization.