Free screening – no ticket required!
Free screening – no ticket necessary! All free La CinOMAthéque screenings will take place in the Truist Auditorium at the Orlando Museum of Art.
ACCESS FOR ALL AT OMA presents:
La CinOMAthéque: A collaboration between OMA and Enzian, with generous support provided by the Art Bridges Foundation’s Access for All program. Access for All at OMA is a monthly free day dedicated to the community. La CinOMAthéque will be a series of 6 bimonthly free screenings of experimental, avant-garde, art films in the Truist auditorium at OMA on Access for All day.
Each screening will be introduced and include a talkback with OMA Chief Curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon and Enzian Programming Manager Tim Anderson.
The Color of Pomegranates:
A breathtaking fusion of poetry, ethnography, and cinema, Sergei Parajanov’s masterwork overflows with unforgettable images and sounds. In a series of tableaux that blend the tactile with the abstract, The Color of Pomegranates revives the splendors of Armenian culture through the story of the eighteenth-century troubadour Sayat-Nova, charting his intellectual, artistic, and spiritual growth through iconographic compositions rather than traditional narrative. The film’s tapestry of folklore and metaphor departed from the realism that dominated the Soviet cinema of its era, leading authorities to block its distribution, with rare underground screenings presenting it in a restructured form. This edition features the cut closest to Parajanov’s original vision, in a restoration that brings new life to one of cinema’s most enigmatic meditations on art and beauty.
The Color of Pomegranates was restored by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Cineteca di Bologna, in association with the National Cinema Centre of Armenia and Gosfilmofond of Russia and funded by the Material World Charitable Foundation.
1969, 78 minutes, Soviet Union, In Armenian, Azerbaijani and Georgian with English Subtitles, Directed by Sergei Parajanov, Unrated
“What Parajanov did was to stylize the poet’s world, literally visualizing his imagery, radically simplifying the story of his life, and totally dispensing with any framing or narration. . . . In Parajanov’s hands, the effect was as rich and strange as any film by Kenneth Anger or Derek Jarman.”
– Ian Christie, THE CRITERION COLLECTION
“In ‘68 the rulebook was still burning and a new language was being written on every movie screen. "Sayat Nova" found a bold new way to tell a man's story, by bouncing his words off of perfectly assembled images like sonar.”
– Scout Tafoya, ROGEREBERT.COM
“It achieves a sort of visionary para-surrealism through the most economical means of gesture, props, and texture. A sublime and heartbreaking film."
– J. Hoberman, THE VILLAGE VOICE
“An astonishing introduction to one of the cinema's very greatest masters.”
– Adrian Martin, FILMCRITIC.AUS
“One may approach it as an achievement of creativity, as an historical film, as a religious film, or even as a political film; in any case, it's rich cinematic ground for those who wish to explore unconventional art.”
– Benjamin Wang, FILM INQUIRY
