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Production still from The Colour of Pomegranates 1968 / Director: Sergei Parajanov /
Image courtesy: Nora Armani, Kino |
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From 20 January to 2 February, the APT6 Cinema program, at the Gallery of Modern Art’s Australian Cinémathèque, focuses predominantly on films from Armenia and Turkey as part of Promised Lands – Return of the Poet and features the first of a season of upcoming films directed by APT6 filmmaker Rithy Panh (Cambodia/France).
APT6 CINEMA
SCREENINGS: Wednesday 20 January – Tuesday 2 February 2010
WHERE: Australian Cinémathèque, Gallery of Modern Art
COST: Admission Free
Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
At the juncture between West Asia and Eastern Europe, the overlapping cultural territories of Armenia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Kurdistan and Georgia are the focus of debates on the legacies of occupation and genocide. In the face of these histories, Return of the Poet presents works that highlight the significance of enlivening and passing on cultural practices and traditions in the contemporary world and that celebrate resilient humanity, landscape and community in an allegorical register that creates new cinematic languages.
Rithy Panh
Rithy Panh’s films centre on life in post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia and the struggle to reconcile the country’s traumatic history with contemporary urban and rural experiences. Working across documentary and dramatic features, Panh’s films explore individual and collective stories that give an emotional and material texture to the history and experiences of the Cambodian people.
n addition to the above, the Australian Cinémathèque is also screening the films of Takeshi Kitano on Fridays at 8.00pm in conjunction with Bar GoMA: Asian Pop and continues to present APT6 Cinema project, The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation.
Iranian animations by Seyyed Morteza Ahadi and Farkhondeh Torabi are screening continuously during the APT6 exhibition in The Fairfax Gallery (Gallery 1.1) at GoMA.
COMING SOON: Promised Lands – Road to Jaffna |
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Crimson Gold 2003 M
DIRECTOR: Jafar Panahi, Asia Pacific Screen Awards, Academy Member and International Jury Member 2007
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - A Tree of Life
WHEN: 6.00pm Wed 20 Jan 2010 (95 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
Opening with a failed robbery attempt, Crimson Gold looks at the endemic class differences, censorship and social imbalance in Tehran through the frustrations of a struggling Iran-Iraq war veteran... Read more |
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Turkmen Boy 2008 All Ages
DIRECTOR: Amir Kasavandi
PROGRAM: The Cypress and the Crow: 50 Years of Iranian Animation
WHEN: 1.00pm Thu 21 Jan and 11.00am Fri 22 Jan 2010 (15 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
... Read more |
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Kikujiro 1999 M
DIRECTOR: Takeshi Kitano
PROGRAM: APT6 Artists
WHEN: 8.00pm Fri 22 Jan 2010 (121 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
As much an odd couple film as an eccentric road movie, Kikujiro follows Takeshi Kitano as the gruff Kikujiro who begrudgingly escorts nine year old Masao across the countryside to visit his mother... Read more |
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Return of the Poet 2006 Ages 15+
DIRECTOR: Harutyun Khachatryan
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
WHEN: 2.00pm Sat 23 Jan 2010 (88 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
Return of the Poet is an engaging documentary odyssey focusing on Armenia’s people, landscape and literary traditions, particularly the late 19th and early 20th century poet and singer Jivany... Read more |
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Border 2009 Ages 15+
DIRECTOR: Harutyun Khachatryan
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
WHEN: 3.30pm Sat 23 Jan 2010 (82 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
A contemplative and poetic documentary-drama by the Armenian master Harutyun Khachatryan in which he reflects on the Armenian-Azerbaijan conflict in the 1990s through the story of a buffalo rescued from a ditch and brought to a farm filled with animals, farmers and refugees... Read more |
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Artavazd Pelechian Shorts Program 1969 – 1994 All Ages
DIRECTOR: Artavazd Pelechian
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
WHEN: 2.00pm Sun 24 Jan 2010 (72 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
Artavazd Pelechian’s cinematic poems celebrate resilient humanity, raw animal life, landscape and community in an allegorical register that creates new cinematic languages... Read more |
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The Colour of Pomegranates 1968 G
DIRECTOR: Sergei Parajanov
PROGRAM: Promised Lands – Return of the Poet
WHEN: 3.30pm Sun 24 Jan 2010 (79 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
The Colour of Pomegranates traces the life of the great 18th century Armenian poet and monk Sayat Nova through his writings, interweaving symbolism and metaphor as it explores Armenian history through Turkish genocide, Persian invasions and the vast disporia of the early 20th century... Read more |
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Site 2: Around the Borders 1989 Ages 15+
DIRECTOR: Rithy Panh
PROGRAM: APT6 Artists
WHEN: 6.00pm Wed 27 Jan 2010 (92 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
Set in a refugee camp on the Cambodian—Thailand border, Site 2: Around the Borders is a moving documentary looking at the displaced lives of Cambodians in the aftermath of genocide as seen through the experiences of Yim Om, a Cambodian
woman struggling to raise her family in an environment of instability and loss... Read more |
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The Play 2005 Ages 12+
DIRECTOR: Pelin Esmer
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
WHEN: 6.00pm Wed 27 Jan 2010 (92 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
A group of peasant women in a southern Turkish mountain village gather together to write and perform a play based on their own lives. This empowering process ends up as a joyous celebration for the whole village, in which the women triumph and the men bask in that glory... Read more |
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Sonatine 1993 MA15+
DIRECTOR: Takeshi Kitano
PROGRAM: APT6 Artists
WHEN: 8.00pm Fri 29 Jan 2010 (94 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
A meditation on the nature of a violent lifestyle and the consequences of the ever-present threat of death Sonatine follows yakuza leader Murakawa (Takeshi Kitano) as he travels to the beautiful sparkling blues of the Okinawa coast from the city to deal with a territory dispute for his boss... Read more |
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Site 2 Around the Borders 1989 Ages 15+
DIRECTOR:Rithy Panh
PROGRAM: APT6 Artists
WHEN: 1.00pm Sat 30 Jan 2010 (92 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
Set in a refugee camp on the Cambodian—Thailand border, Site 2: Around the Borders is a moving documentary looking at the displaced lives of Cambodians in the aftermath of genocide as seen through the experiences of Yim Om, a Cambodian woman struggling to raise her family in an environment of instability and loss... Read more |
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A Season Outside 1997 Ages 12+
DIRECTOR: Amar Kanwar
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Cinema of Partition
WHEN: 12.00pm Sat 30 Jan 2010 (73 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
'A Season Outside is a personal and philosophical journey through the shadows of past generations, conflicting positions, borders and time zones — a nomad wandering through lines of separation, examining the scars of violence and dreams of hope scattered among communities and nations' Amar Kanwar
Amar Kanwar has selected this screening date in commemoration the anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi’s assassination on January 30 1948... Read more |
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I Saw the Sun 2009 Ages 15+
DIRECTOR: Mahsun Kırmızıgül
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
WHEN: 3.00pm Sat 30 Jan 2010 (120 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
Spanning a period of 25 years, the film recounts the experiences of the three families forced to migrate from their mountain village - their home for generations - and their struggle to find their feet in alien surroundings... Read more |
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Girl from Moush 1994 + Stone Time Touch 2007 Ages 12+
DIRECTOR: Mahsun Kırmızıgül
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
WHEN: 1.00pm Sun 31 Jan 2010 (77 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
A meditation on the Armenian diaspora, experimental filmmaker Gariné Torossian illustrates the ways in which we construct (and deconstruct, and reconstruct) identities based on our notions of home... Read more |
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Ararat 2002 MA15+
DIRECTOR: Atom Egoyan
PROGRAM: Promised Lands - Return of the Poet
WHEN: 3.00pm Sun 31 Jan 2010 (115 mins)
WHERE: Cinema A, GoMA
A film within a film, Ararat addresses a genocide that predates the invention of the term: the slaughter of 1.5 million Armenians by the Turkish Ottoman army during World War I while pondering the damages incurred both when history is negated and when history becomes narrative... Read more |
Please note: Australian Cinémathèque programs include films that have not been officially classified in Australia. These films have been assigned age recommendations as a guide only. Parents and teachers are advised to contact the Cinémathèque if they would like more information as to the content and suitability of the films. |
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