NICA recommends | Transgressive Poetics: Re-examining the Work of Parajanov

NICA recommends | Transgressive Poetics: Re-examining the Work of Parajanov
Date: 15 November 2024
Time: 14:00-18:00
Location: University of Amsterdam, building Oudemanshuispoort: room D. 1.08
Organizer: Marie-Aude Baronian
Contact & Registration: Marina Furlan: m.furlan2@uva.nl

Please note that in that same week there will be a screening of The Color of Pomegranates (1969) at EYE on November 11 at 21:15 and on November 12 a screening of Parajanov’s short films at 19:15 (both with introductions). More information here.

Georgian-Armenian-Ukrainian filmmaker and artist Sergei Parajanov (1924-1990) left a singular, enigmatic and unclassifiable body of work, mainly produced in the sixties and in the eighties in the Soviet context. Known for his poetic cinema, his idiosyncratic approach to art and for his creative adaptation of the literary and material cultures of the Caucasus, he has not only invented a new language of cinema but also a transgressive poetics and aesthetics that resists easy national and style classification.

As the year 2024 closes out the centennial celebration of his birth, this conference stresses the audiovisual and artistic intersections of Transcaucasian cultures in the current troubled context of these regions, taking the opportunity to explore the multiple directions, discussions and inspirations that draw from Parajanov’s work in the present day. This one-day conference thereby re-examines the multifaceted world of Parajanov by addressing a wide range of diNerent topics and questions such as filmic sound, the mystical, material objects and fashion, archiving and preserving films, and the ways these works are presented and circulated in film festivals.

Speakers

David Baronian
Tina Bastajian
Daniel Bird
Floris Paalman
Amir Vudka
Marie-Aude Baronian

Programme

14:00:
Welcome & short introduction
14:15-15:45:
Tina BASTAJIAN (Sandberg Institute)— “Sonic Gestures: Listening to Parajanov’s Tableaux”
Marie-Aude BARONIAN (University of Amsterdam)— “Fashioning a World of Material Objects”
Amir VUDKA (University of Amsterdam)—“Parajanov the Eclectic Mystic”
< Coffee break >
16:15-17:45:
Daniel BIRD (The Hamo Bek-Nazarov Project) — “Towards a Cinemadaran: The
Preservation and Restoration of Parajanov’s Filmography”
Flori; s PAALMAN (University of Amsterdam)—“Tracing Parajanov: Manifestation and
Reception”
David BARONIAN (visual artist)— “Freedom Inside: Parajanov’s Time in Prison”