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    ENGLAND OPENS DOORS TO SERGEY PARADJANOV'S WORLD

    ArmInfo
    2010-02-15 18:21:00

    ArmInfo. Sergei Paradjanov Festival will be held in London and Bristol
    on 22 Feb-9 May 2010.

    The press-service of the organization committee told ArmInfo that
    the Sergei Paradjanov Festival in London and Bristol is the first
    major celebration of the legendary artist and filmmaker whose talent
    transcends religious and political boarders, drawing on the cultural
    traditions of Georgia, Armenia, Ukraine and Russia. The Festival aims
    to present the life and works of Sergei Paradjanov to UK audiences
    through a series of diverse events that include: a film season;
    a moving image installation; a symposium and a workshop at the
    BFI Southbank; a photographic exhibition at the National Theatre;
    screenings and talks at Pushkin House; a concert at St. Yeghiche
    Armenian Church; a film retrospective at Arnolfini (Bristol); and a
    photographic exhibition at The Bristol Gallery.

    Sergei Paradjanov (1924-1990) is one of the 20th century's greatest
    masters of cinema. Armenian born in Georgia, Paradjanov studied
    film in Moscow, worked in Ukraine, Armenia and Georgia. He started
    making films in 1954 and is celebrated for his poetic and visionary
    films including The Colour of Pomegranates (1968) and Ashik Kerib
    (1988). A winner of British Academy Award for the "Shadows of Forgotten
    Ancestors", Paradjanov was a constant target of Soviet authorities;
    deprived of the opportunity to make films for fifteen years, five
    of which were spent in hard labour camps, he found the most vibrant
    means of expressing his talent through drawings, collages and writing.

    Paradjanov was ahead of his time, for his works posses the elements and
    stylistics which came to constitute contemporary arts - performance,
    video art and moving image and mixed media installations.

    The festival will feature a number of talks and introductions
    by distinguished guests, experts on Paradjanov's works, who will
    elaborate on the significance of Paradjanov's phenomenon and the
    legacy of his creation.

    The Sergei Paradjanov Festival is organised by Layla Alexander-Garrett
    and GLAZ in conjunction with BFI Southbank, and sponsored by UNISTREAM
    money transfers, British Georgian Chamber of Commerce, Armenian
    Community and Church Council of Great Britain, Ukraine International
    Airlines, Ivan the Terrible, Brown's Hotel.
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