From 25 May 2021 until 1 June 2021, the Armenian Institute in partnership with Klassiki, the world’s first ever streaming platform dedicated to classic cinema from Russia, the Caucasus and Central Asia, will host UNDER SOVIET SKIES, an online film festival spotlighting recently restored and newly subtitled classics of Armenian cinema and celebrating the theme of neighbourliness with films from Russia, Georgia and Ukraine.
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Please email info@klassiki.online with Registration for Under Soviet Skies in the subject field, alongside your email address and proposed user name and you will be registered for a free festival pass for a week.
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Thursday 27 May 2021, 7pm BST
Join us for a live panel discussion exploring the theme of Soviet identity and film, how identities have been shaped and reshaped in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, with Emeritus Professor of Film Studies at Birkbeck College, Professor Ian Christie, prize winning Armenian author Nourtiza Matossian, researcher and curator Dr Maria Korolkova and Gareth Evans, film curator for the influential Whitechapel Gallery; moderated by Tatevik Ayvazyan, AI Director.
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Professor Ian Christie
Professor Christie is a renowned British film scholar, author and current Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London and a Fellow of the British Academy. He has researched and published on many aspects of film history, including Eisenstein and Russian cinema, Powell and Pressburger, Gilliam and Scorsese, and is a regular broadcaster on cinema.
Nouritza Matossian
Nouritza Matossian is a writer, actor, broadcaster and human rights activist writing on the arts, contemporary music, history and Armenia. Matossian published the first biography and critical study of the Greek composer Iannis Xenakis and ground-breaking biography, Black Angel, A Life of Arshile Gorky in 1998. Honorary Cultural Attache for the Armenian Embassy in London from 1991-2000, Nouritza Matossian broadcasts on the BBC and contributes to newspapers and magazines: The Independent, The Guardian, The Economist, The Observer.
Dr Maria Korolkova
Dr Korolkova is an interdisciplinary researcher and curator. Studying Screen Media and Cultures at the University of Cambridge, Maria gained her doctorate degree from the University of Oxford, specialising in early Russian cinema and space. She worked in the creative industries sector as a producer, journalist, broadcaster, and script editor at Mosfilm Studios, BBC World Service, Sony Pictures, Forbes, and the TLS, before joining the University of Greenwich in 2017 as a Senior Lecturer in Media. She has curated public events internationally, including Barbican Centre, London, and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Gareth Evans
Gareth Evans is a London-based writer, editor, film and event producer and Whitechapel Gallery’s Adjunct Moving Image Curator. He co-curated the UK's first Armenian Film Festival in 2005 and served on the Fipresci jury at the 2017 Golden Apricot Yerevan International Film Festival.
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Join us here:
Zoom link: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4316770577
Meeting ID: 431-677-0577
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This event is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
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