Film Screening

Taniel Film Screening, Poetry Readings & Discussion, Centrala Gallery Thursday 25 April, 7.30-9.30pm

Centrala Gallery

25 avr. 2024 7:30 PM

Centrala Gallery
Unit 4, Minerva Works
Fazeley Street
Birmingham
B5 5RT

Birmingham - United Kingdom

In commemoration of the Armenian Genocide and as part of artist Karen Babayan’s Hybrid Landscapes residency, Centrala will be screening director Garo Berberian’s multi-award winning short film, Taniel in homage to poet Taniel Varoujan. Film Noir in style, Taniel evokes the era of dramatic filmmaking with extreme lighting and camera angles. The narrative is mostly heard through Varoujan’s poems in Western Armenian expressing the emotions in each of the scenes; the narrative poetry also in English, is delivered with an emotive depth of feeling by the inimitable Sean Bean.

This film powerfully evokes the foreboding of the coming of the greatest war the world has ever known and the catastrophe of the Armenian Genocide. As British forces prepare their landings in nearby Gallipoli, on 24 April 1915 hundreds of arrest warrants are issued across Constantinople and poet Taniel Varoujan is arrested. The arrival of police at his door shatters his home and destroys his work. His family will never see him again.

The screening will be followed by a wine reception, a discussion panel and poetry reading with Karen Babayan, director Garo Berberian and producer Tatevik Ayvazyan, moderated by Centrala’s Director Alicja Kaczmarek. FREE ENTRY.

See the trailer here: https://vimeo.com/243448214

Taniel is a film by https://rebelrepublicfilms.com/

Taniel website: https://tanielfilm.com/

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