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    THE PARADJANOV SEASON N LONDON
    By Nadia Kidd; Ksenia Galouchko

    The Daily Telegraph
    February 23, 2010 Tuesday
    London

    This March the British Film Institute on London's Southbank will
    host a season of Armenian film-maker Sergei Paradj anov's works.The
    festival will include Paradj anov's acclaimed features, short films
    and documentaries. Elisabetta Eabrizi, curator of the festival,
    has long nurtured a passion for the director. Having completed her
    university dissertation on his works, since 2005 she has been engaged
    by the idea of making Paradjanov known to a wider international
    audience. Paradj anov's legacy has shaped the styles of several
    British film-makers, including that of Derek Jarman, whose works were
    inspired by The Colour of Pomegranates. Other"followers" include the
    Brothers Quay, whom Eabrizi calls "the real masters of animation'.'
    Although prominent in his influence on filmmakers of the 20th century,
    along with fashion designers, musicians and artists, Paradjanov is
    virtually unknown among film lovers.

    To Eabrizi, the director's ability to bring together a variety of
    cultures and religions, such as Islam and Christianity, in his films
    makes them topical and modern in today's political and social context.

    So when Eabrizi met Layla Alexander-Garret, a London-based Russian
    art promoter who was also searching for a venue to host a Paradjanov
    film festival, she knew it was a dream come true. Together, the
    two Paradjanov admirers pooled then: contacts and experience, and
    finally made the long anticipated two-and-a-half-month Paradjanov
    festival happen.

    The festival will be the biggest Paradjanov celebration ever held
    in the UK. The most rec ent Paradj anov-themed cultural event in
    the UK goes back to 10 years ago, when the Lumiere cinema put on an
    exhibition and screenings in memory of his craft. The festival will
    host screenings of Paradjanov's and Paradjanov-influenced films,
    including documentaries by Russian, Ukrainian, Erench and German
    film-makers. Some screenings will be followed by Q&A sessions
    with Paradjanov's friends and collaborators, along with Paradjanov
    scholars. According to Eabrizi, the festival films will be introduced
    by, among others, director Patrick Cazals and film critic and writer
    Tony Rayns.

    The March 6 symposium will bring together a large variety of guests,
    including the director of the Armenian-based Paradjanov museum
    and those who have worked with Paradjanov. Contemporary artist Mat
    Collishaw has been commissioned to produce a moving image installation
    for the festival. The project unites sculpture and the moving image
    in an atmospheric work inspired by Paradjanov's craft. According
    to Eabrizi, Colh'shaw, whose show runs until May 9, has managed to
    poetically convey the spirit of Paradjanov's artistic endeavour.

    Some events at the festival are being organised exclusively by
    Eabrizi's Russian partner Alexander- Garret, including the photo
    exhibition by a Georgian artist Yuri Mechitov, which contains rare
    pictures taken during his long friendship with Sergei Paradjanov,
    in addition to a memorial concert at the Armenian Church, and a set
    of events at the Pushkin House, Russian cultural centre in London,
    and in Bristol. And what could be Eabrizi's next artistic project?

    Considering the successful professional collaboration with
    Alexander-Garret, the curator might opt for a season of Russian film
    classics.

    From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress
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