Film: Parajanov films to be screened at Pera Museum in Istanbul

Panorama, Armenia
Jan 9 2019
20:08 09/01/2019 Armenia

A selection of films by Sergei Parajanov, a world-renowned Armenian director, will be screened in Pera Museum in Istanbul, Turkey. As Ermenihaber reports, the screenings will take place as part of the ongoing exhibition “Parajanov with Sarkis. ”

to remind, coordinated by the director of the Sergei Parajanov Museum in Yerevan, Zaven Sargsyan, the event exhibits various works by the artist, including paintings, collages, trimmings, sketches themed after his movies, stage costumes, mosaics, photos, etc.

The screening program, meanwhile, will run through March 17 and will give the local audience wo enjoy number of award-winning films, such as “Andriesh,” “Ukrainian Rhapsody,” “Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors,” “Hakob Hovnatanyan,” “Flower on the Stone.” The program also features The Seasons of the Year by another Armenian director Artavazd Peleshian and documentary “Paradjanov: A Requiem” directed by Ron Holloway. 

Emil Lazarian

“I should like to see any power of the world destroy this race, this small tribe of unimportant people, whose wars have all been fought and lost, whose structures have crumbled, literature is unread, music is unheard, and prayers are no more answered. Go ahead, destroy Armenia . See if you can do it. Send them into the desert without bread or water. Burn their homes and churches. Then see if they will not laugh, sing and pray again. For when two of them meet anywhere in the world, see if they will not create a New Armenia.” - WS