There’s not enough space for video chapters (which need to be in the description to work) and sources, so sources will go here: Parajanov’s Playful Poetics: On the ‘Director’s Cut’ of ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ by James Steffen. The Colour of Pomegranates: Soviet Surrealism by James Steffen. The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov by James Steffen. Link to Jame’s book: uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5005.htm Criterion: www.criterionchannel.com/videos/decoding-the-color-of-pomegranates?.com& Kinetic Iconography: Wes Anderson, Sergei Parajanov, and the Illusion of Motion by Peter Sloane. Article: www.jstor.org/stable/44866269 Twitter: twitter.com/Sweetburlingame?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor Book(s): www.waterstones.com/author/peter-sloane/494191 The Colour of Pomegranates by Rahul Hamid. www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/cteq/the-colour-of-pomegranates/ Tribute: www.cineaste.com/spring2023/a-memorial-tribute-to-rahul-hamid A Collective Interior Monologue: Sergei Parajanov and Eisenstein's Joyce-Inspired Vision of Cinema by Karla Oeler. www.jstor.org/stable/20466795 Book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo6963845.html Sergei Parajanov's Differential Cinema by Robert Efird. www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/film.2018.0090 Book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo123638591.html Strange Love: Parajanov and the Effects of Late Soviet (Inter)nationalisms by Leah Feldman. www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/globalsouth.13.2.04 Book: www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/fa5mDwAAQBAJ?hl=en The Color of Pomegranates: A Masterpiece of Surrealism and Poetry in Film by Comic Atomic. cometatomic.com/the-color-of-pomegranates-a-masterpiece-of-surrealism-and-poetry-in-film/#google_vignette The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) on Scene by Green. Instagram: instagram.com/scene.by.green/?hl=en scenebygreen.com/2022/08/27/the-color-of-pomegranates-1969/#:~:text=Though%20it%20does%20follow%20a,other%20filmmakers%20had%20attempted%20before. Deep Red: On ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ by Joanne Kouyoumjian. reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/271/color_pomegranates Natalie Soghomonian, EDI Journalist, Reviews "The Colour of Pomegranates", Sergei Parajanov. Article: www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/2023-edi-student-journalists/natalie-soghomonian-edi-journalist#:~:text=It%20is%20not%20only%20a,to%20preserve%20their%20cultural%20heritage. Analysis of Sergei Parajanov’s Work from the Perspective of Surrealism and Psychoanalysis by Syuzanna Grigoryan. baec.aua.am/files/2018/11/Syuzanna_Grigoryan_Analysis-of-Sergei-Parajanov%E2%80%99s-Work-from-the-Perspective-of-Surrealism-Psychoanalysis_Capstone.pdf Life History of a Fruit (Symbol and Tradition in Parajanov’s Caucasian Trilogy) by Moritz Pfeifer. eefb.org/retrospectives/symbol-and-tradition-in-parajanovs-caucasian-trilogy/#:~:text=Traditionally%2C%20the%20pomegranate%20has%20been,his%20intention%20was%20ethnographic%20precision. Opening Shots by Nicolas Rapold. Twitter: twitter.com/NicolasRapold Substack: rapold.substack.com/ Ethnography, Fairytale, and "Perpetual Motion" in Sergei Paradjanov's "Ashik-Kerib" by Elizabeth A. Papazian. go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA155476978&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00904260&p=LitRC&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E6af16760&aty=open-web-entry Book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780875803890/manufacturing-truth/#bookTabs=1 Sayat-Nova (1969) by ณ.คอน ลับแล. raremeat.blog/the-color-of-pomegranates-1969/ Twitter: twitter.com/raremeatblog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Araremeatblog%7Ctwcon%5Es2 Sayat-Nova: An 18th-century troubadour by Charles Dowsett. James Steffen Receives Positive Review for Work on The Colour of Pomegranates by Wade Moricle. Why a pomegranate? by Patricia Langley. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118911/ Khakhuli Triptych by Nino Chichinadze. atinati.com/news/5fffe44ff2482b0038972014 Anchiskhati by Nino Chichinadze. atinati.com/news/614370bc6287dd00385aabc6 Re-deconstructing the Khakhouli Triptych by Titos Papamastorakis. ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr Of a Different Script: The Language of Untranslatability in Armenian Cinema by Tatiana Anoushian. scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/df65vd60v ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ is like Poetry Weaved into a Tapestry of Colours by Srilekha Mitra. www.youthkiawaaz.com/2023/09/article-on-the-colour-of-pomegranates/ Instagram: instagram.com/mitra__srilekha_/?igshid=190r The Color of Pomegranates preceded by Seasons of the Year by Dorota Lech. tiff.net/events/the-color-of-pomegranates-preceded-by-seasons-of-the-year#:~:text=A%20rich%20and%20poetic%20essay,music%20and%20Vivaldi's%20Four%20Seasons.
As an Armenian, seeing an Armenian film intrigue foreign cinephiles makes me absolutely happy. Though I'm ashamed to admit I haven't watched this movie before, I'm hoping to watch it with newly attained understanding of it. Thank you for deeply analyzing the film and talking of our culture in such a fond way ❤️💙🧡
A people with a rich culture and history. My father military/college/theology educaited explained it to me that Armenia is in part of a world that suffers extrem turmoil and genocide, the erasure or whole ethnic groups, whole countries are common. Islam has actually made it significantly worse. It's crazy because every single one of us even western Europeans came from around that area originally, its kinda like all our ancestral homeland. Even if your English at one time your ancestor still were tribes that lived there.
It’s not about Armenia the country it’s about Sayat Nova the poet. He lived in Tbilisi (‘Tiflis’). He was half Georgian. Paradjanov made a film about another Armenian poet who was his spiritual and artistic ancestor. It is an homage to a monk who had innumerable children in the spirit.
@@BenjaminSpencer-m1kyour father sounds awesome! And you’re so right! I know many people who have the experience of when their foot steps onto armenia after landing, it feels like they’re “finally home.” There’s a sense of it’s where you’re supposed to be. Both Armenians and non Armenians alike feel this! It’s a weird but cool experience for sure. Also I’m fairly convinced the garden of Eden is in Armenia, next to Lake Van. It’s a gorgeous country and I’m happy to hear your father educated you on the topic ❤ have a wonderful day ❤
@@claesvanoldenphatt9972I think they’re referring to it as an Armenian film because it takes place in Armenia and is made by an Armenian lol not that it’s necessarily only about Armenia! :))
I'm just so glad others out there have a fondness as I do for this film. It's hard to relate to any other person over this movie. I've always loved it and never really could say clearly quite why. It's beautiful and visually fascinating but there's just something in watching it I can't quite describe. I just couldn't stop watching it originally it just held me captive. Anyway cheers to you all.
Side note: Sorry! I know I butchered some words; I tried finding pronunciations for every unfamiliar word, but they were either not available at all or inconsistent (i.e. a few people pronouncing things a bit different/some channels or sites also making prank pronunciation of words). Also, I briefly referred to Parajanov’s film as a ‘Soviet-Armenian art film’ (I think in the beginning). Apologies if this offended anyone. Though, I hope these mistakes don’t take away to much from the information of the video and celebration of Sergei Parajanov’s work. For more info, see the links provided of extra sources/reading and the link to the Criterion video made by James Steffen; there are more videos on Criterion, but I couldn’t link them all in the space of one comment. 😊🙌🏻 Time stamps (in the description and another comment) and subtitles in English are available.
As an Armenian I adooore going to the Parajanov house in Yerevan whenever I’m visiting the homeland. It’s such a cool experience and I hope one day you’re able to see it too!
Omg. I can’t tell you how thankful to you I am. I have been searching for the name of this film for over 30 years. It came on late at night on PBS. It always haunted me. Thank you
I am so happy that Sergei Parajanov is at last getting recognition - you should definitely watch another one of his films (even if you don’t analyse it) called «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors»
Timestamps/Video Chapters (here, because they sometimes don't show up): (Also, I briefly referred to Parajanov’s film as a ‘Soviet-Armenian art film’ (I think in the beginning). Apologies if this offended anyone.) 00:00 - Introduction 04:52 - Structure 05:56 - Censorship 08:27 - Who is Sergei Parajanov? 10:49 - Davtar/Daftar 11:53 - Pomegranates and the Kingdom of Armenia 13:26 - Pomegranates and Parajanov’s Other Works 15:01 - Pomegranates and Fertility 18:28 - Pomegranates and Its Evolving Significance 21:12 - Bleeding Dagger 22:09 - Crushed Grapes and Manuscripts 25:04 - Fish between Two Bread 25:45 - Vase and Kamancha (or Kamancheh) 26:53 - Thorns and Religious Iconography 28:07 - Who was Sayat-Nova? 30:02 - Drenched Books 32:25 - Dyed Wool 34:22 - Nature and Sacrificial (Animals) 36:06 - Baths 36:43 - Surrealism, Parajanov and Freud 38:35 - Homoerotic Subtext 40:41 - ‘The Poet’s Youth’ 41:40 - Floating 42:28 - Tableau(x) Vivant/Tableau(x) Aesthetic 44:11 - Mechanical Movement 45:43 - Examples of Mechanical Movement 48:56 - Dialogue 49:27 - Frames, Mirrors and Windows 50:40 - Frames, Cherubs and Anna 52:26- Frames and Graveyards 55:15 - The World is a Window 57:16 - The World is a Cage 58:13 - Mirroring and Repetition 59:00 Sofiko Chiaureli 01:00:49 - Repetition (and Difference) 01:02:35 - Lace 01:03:38 - Pantomime 01:04:26 - Khakuli Icon Triptych/Khakuli Triptych Icon 01:06:40 - King Erekle’s Hunt 01:08:31 - Tomb/Fortress 01:09:27 - The Red-and-Black Sequence 01:10:45 - Llama 01:11:39 - Asceticism and Sensuality 01:13:27 - Soundtrack 01:14:08 - Death of The Holy Father Lazar/Lazarus/Ghazaros 01:15:45 - The Poet’s Dream 01:18:32 - The Nativity 01:19:21 - Nostalgic for Childhood 01:22:07 - Old Age 01:24:37 - Lavash and Graveyards 01:25:54 - The Acceptance of Death 01:26:24 - Skull 01:26:39 - Bleeding Wall 01:27:15 - The Angel of Resurrection
Good to see this, one of my favorite directors. I haven't seen Ashik Kerib, but Pomegranates and Suram Fortress are profoundly beautiful expressions of what the camera can show. To me, Parajanov is the same as Bresson and Powell and Pressburger, the camera being used for a new style with infinite artistic possibilities.
I am watching your videos for a year, yet I was so surprised seeing a hour and half long video about Parajanov. As an Armenian, I want to say express my gratitude, thank you very much 🧡🧡🧡
The bleeding dagger made me think about some instances of bleeding during sex. Or possibly when cutting into the pomegranate and the eating of seeds being related to becoming a woman and as more seeds are removed correlate to the loss of youth and by the time the seeds are gone it leaves a useless husk representing a woman post menopause. Idk maybe im thinking too much
@@Lucinda_96 Picture yourself in a boat on a river With tangerine trees and marmalade skies Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly A girl with kaleidoscope eyes Cellophane flowers of yellow and green Towering over your head Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes And she's gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ah Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers That grow so incredibly high Newspaper taxis appear on the shore Waiting to take you away Climb in the back with your head in the clouds And you're gone Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ah Picture yourself on a train in a station With plasticine porters with looking glass ties Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ah Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Ah Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Think you reading to much into it or not enough. I think its more accurate to say that anything man does is essentially some sort of bloodshed. No direct connection to a torn hymen but Food and a knife a item with a duel life, one as a tool and the other a weapon. Also a reference to trauma wich can be for a women a torn hymen but if you think only that your going to severely limit the beauty and horror of this art. It speaks deeply on many levels and the whole Hymen idea would be pretty much be the least of these. I've seen some stuff in my life like 50+ people die in 15 minutes, white sheets draped over the bodies. the blood leaks out and stains in a certain way, Ive ate pomegranates and their juice is no were the deep red of veinus or arterial blood so the color has been exaggerated to reinforce a connection with blood.
The truth is about this film that because it is so symbolist and flowing in its imagery, almost like dream like that it lends itself, perhaps over much, to a phenomenon known as paradol. This means that people might overlay or project their longing for their nationalistic impulse, or some other thing that is important to them, over the iconography, when it is not intended to symbolize this at all. I think the best approach to this is, like most modern art, to simply relax into it, and allow your own mind to gather the impressions, and suggest to you over the course of the entire experience, what it might be about, and to allow your consciousness to address itself to anything that naturally sticks out to you and calls to you and to feel free to ignore anything that does not speak to you. I think that is one of the most legitimate uses of modern art.
This popped up on my recommended, and to say i was surprised would be an understatement. Parajanov is one of my relatives, and i come from a family of artists, filmmakers (and martial artists of course.) My dad has an old photobook of his childhood which included photos of him and Sergei. Them spending time together, creating things, etc. I have always been happy to share my heritage, and to see this film being shared around and admired to this day makes me so damn happy. Incredible analysis. Thanks for this, god bless.
Ohh, this is great, thank you so much! I know that there's an in-depth analysis of the film's symbolism in Russian which unfortunately hasn't been translated into English, and I was never able to find any equivalent analysis. I'm so glad to see that that gap has now been filled!
Thanks for the comment, Valmarsiglia! ☺️🙌🏻 I also found further videos on this topic on the Criterion Channel, which may be worth checking out if that’s available in your region!
You are awesome for tackling this film. Almost nobody talks about it. I saw it years ago and didn't really know what I was watching but I respected what I thought it was trying to do. I like movies that explode the boring formula that people are spoon-fed to expect. I need to see it again.
Update: due to some issues, which I decided not to dispute. Some of the analysis in this video was cut out (from around 30:00 - 31:44) *so this part might cut or not make perfect sense.
Thank you so much for this video! I tried to watch this movie without context but had to stop because i didn't understand it, im so glad you covered this movie so i can rewatch with newer insight 😭💗
I love LOVE your videos omg, everything about your delivery, analysis and observations are just so delicate and sophisticated, it just scratches my brain in a way that idk how to describe but I just wanted to say your videos are just such a treat!
Thank you for the breakdown of this film. This film is way above my head. It’s giving me a very uncanny valley vibe and as of right now, I cannot handle that. What I will say is the setting, location, textures, costumes are alive and impregnated with meaning thus serve as inspiration in art.
The film looks so beautiful, and the extensive review ahead of me (to watch at least for awhile) may well be one of the few reviews I have ever enjoyed When I saw the video title, I did think it was going to be about extracting the different hues possible in a natural process & using them as dyes. Nonetheless, thank you algorithm for providing this intriguing film/video to wake up to
Sorry for a late view.. 😅 Although the people who worked in the film's restoration urged audience to not find structure I found it quite linear and structured. But it's true that it's not meant to be interpreted but just be visualized. When I caught myself trying to interpret it frustrated me so. So I let go. Each static image alluded to early Christian Byzantine art in my eyes. The objects too( living or dead) were heavy handed in symbolism (which wasn't a surprise as the use of allegory was mentioned in the prologue itself). For me pomegranate with it's seeds was life encompassing it's meaning which the poet was trying to understand. By the end anticlimactically though he couldn't and his life slips away mid sentence him trying to define it. But I loved your various interpretations too.♥ Side note: Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory seems very much inspired by this film. I'm so happy with your choice for this essay. Keep up love.😘
@@yilyau No I do look forward to your videos. You always give great insights to the art I love and it often makes me rewatch it with new perspective. 🥰
i saw a reel of this and on God i have seen so many horror movies but none literally none were successful to scare me. But this one lit gave me goosebumps throughout the whole movie and doubt my existence. I got so scared by this movie. Im still traumatized
I find some similarities to a film titled "Holy Mountain"; symbolism and visual storytelling greatly overshadowing dialog. Would be interested in your perspectives on that work if you've had the chance to view it.
There’s also a lady Gaga video where she took a lot from color of pomegranates :)) idk if she did a good job per se but yeah! And Nicolas Jaar has a whole album of a soundtrack he made for color of Pomegranates (like a soundtrack he made for himself the movie makers didn’t ask him to do it or anything hahah) definitely cool to see all the way it’s affected art!
I also want to say that I think the reason that the film was suppressed is because it is not naturalistic, rational, linear, and all of the other things that were so important to Soviet era art. It was just outside of the box and was probably for that reason alone considered immoral and corrupt. I can sympathize with them because their state was relatively new and they wanted to have a coherent message which would inform citizenstowards the direction they wanted to have in their particular state which was communism. I’m not a fan of communism by any means, but I do sympathize with their intent to suppress this piece of art, especially since they were bankrolling it I think they believed in artists per se, because they were communist enough to support the making of the art but when they saw what it was, they knew that they could not promote it. It just happened at history and I’m so glad that we can enjoy it in the present form as being fully restored. I’m really excited to get to know this work.
I get what you’re saying but it’s hard to sympathize with a state that threw many artists and intellectuals to die in hard labor camps just to have a more coherent “message.” But hey you’re right at least now we get to enjoy it so alls well that ends well right ;-) ❤❤ I hope you have an awesome day!!
I could only listen a few minutes. I found the narrator's upward inflection at the end of each sentence too much. Chalk. Black board. Its a shame because the content looks really interesting.
Ohhh yeah I see what you mean, it is kind of …. hahah not to be mean! Just not an easy flow to listen to. Also they’re making their voice higher pitched too haha, idk it’s not my preferred cadence for an analysis type vid for sure.
@@hela2000 And how did you find Juno Reactor? Thru Texhnolyze like I did? LoL. I had actually know about this movie for a very very large chunk of my life as my mother really enjoyed it.
Why do so many people care about weather or not he was nationalistic? He has a beautiful country, of course he should be nationalistic, nationalism is always good.
People from places like America - especially those who have mixed genetics and have never visited their homeland, will never understand why nationalism is actually a good thing and rather normal if not completely natural
@@pampelmousesoviet implies he was a communist. My mom grew up under USSR I would never call her Soviet I just call her Armenian :) well really, I call her ‘mom’ hahaha ❤
This is just so monotonous…..why are you just…..it’s like your reading from a book….it’s putting me to sleep as your voice has no cadence, no rhythm or….inflection. 😑😶 Very odd. It’s just…..boring 🤷🏼♀️ Your other videos from a quick listen of a few….aren’t monotonous like this. What gives? I couldn’t keep listening…..just meh. 🥱 To go on felt way too much like a chore. And I ADORE long winded high intellect film analysis. Basically this film always looked fascinating but now….it seems boring & much MUCH too xtian based and like it’ll be one monotonous monotone of boredom 🙄😂
Noooo just cuz she talks like she’s a little girl doesn’t mean the movie itself is boring! Or maybe it is boring hahaha I mean all art films kind of are … but you know what I mean :))
There’s not enough space for video chapters (which need to be in the description to work) and sources, so sources will go here:
Parajanov’s Playful Poetics: On the ‘Director’s Cut’ of ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ by James Steffen.
The Colour of Pomegranates: Soviet Surrealism by James Steffen.
The Cinema of Sergei Parajanov by James Steffen.
Link to Jame’s book: uwpress.wisc.edu/books/5005.htm
Criterion: www.criterionchannel.com/videos/decoding-the-color-of-pomegranates?.com&
Kinetic Iconography: Wes Anderson, Sergei Parajanov, and the Illusion of Motion by Peter Sloane.
Article: www.jstor.org/stable/44866269
Twitter: twitter.com/Sweetburlingame?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
Book(s): www.waterstones.com/author/peter-sloane/494191
The Colour of Pomegranates by Rahul Hamid.
www.sensesofcinema.com/2009/cteq/the-colour-of-pomegranates/
Tribute: www.cineaste.com/spring2023/a-memorial-tribute-to-rahul-hamid
A Collective Interior Monologue: Sergei Parajanov and Eisenstein's Joyce-Inspired Vision
of Cinema by Karla Oeler.
www.jstor.org/stable/20466795
Book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/G/bo6963845.html
Sergei Parajanov's Differential Cinema by Robert Efird.
www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10.3366/film.2018.0090
Book: press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/A/bo123638591.html
Strange Love: Parajanov and the Effects of Late Soviet (Inter)nationalisms by Leah Feldman.
www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/globalsouth.13.2.04
Book: www.google.co.uk/books/edition/_/fa5mDwAAQBAJ?hl=en
The Color of Pomegranates: A Masterpiece of Surrealism and Poetry in Film by Comic Atomic.
cometatomic.com/the-color-of-pomegranates-a-masterpiece-of-surrealism-and-poetry-in-film/#google_vignette
The Colour of Pomegranates (1969) on Scene by Green.
Instagram: instagram.com/scene.by.green/?hl=en
scenebygreen.com/2022/08/27/the-color-of-pomegranates-1969/#:~:text=Though%20it%20does%20follow%20a,other%20filmmakers%20had%20attempted%20before.
Deep Red: On ‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ by Joanne Kouyoumjian.
reverseshot.org/symposiums/entry/271/color_pomegranates
Natalie Soghomonian, EDI Journalist, Reviews "The Colour of Pomegranates", Sergei Parajanov.
Article: www.ucl.ac.uk/art-history/equality-diversity-and-inclusion/2023-edi-student-journalists/natalie-soghomonian-edi-journalist#:~:text=It%20is%20not%20only%20a,to%20preserve%20their%20cultural%20heritage.
Analysis of Sergei Parajanov’s Work from the Perspective of Surrealism and Psychoanalysis by Syuzanna Grigoryan.
baec.aua.am/files/2018/11/Syuzanna_Grigoryan_Analysis-of-Sergei-Parajanov%E2%80%99s-Work-from-the-Perspective-of-Surrealism-Psychoanalysis_Capstone.pdf
Life History of a Fruit (Symbol and Tradition in Parajanov’s Caucasian Trilogy) by Moritz Pfeifer.
eefb.org/retrospectives/symbol-and-tradition-in-parajanovs-caucasian-trilogy/#:~:text=Traditionally%2C%20the%20pomegranate%20has%20been,his%20intention%20was%20ethnographic%20precision.
Opening Shots by Nicolas Rapold.
Twitter: twitter.com/NicolasRapold
Substack: rapold.substack.com/
Ethnography, Fairytale, and "Perpetual Motion" in Sergei Paradjanov's "Ashik-Kerib" by Elizabeth A. Papazian.
go.gale.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA155476978&sid=googleScholar&v=2.1&it=r&linkaccess=abs&issn=00904260&p=LitRC&sw=w&userGroupName=anon%7E6af16760&aty=open-web-entry
Book: www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9780875803890/manufacturing-truth/#bookTabs=1
Sayat-Nova (1969) by ณ.คอน ลับแล.
raremeat.blog/the-color-of-pomegranates-1969/
Twitter: twitter.com/raremeatblog?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Eembeddedtimeline%7Ctwterm%5Escreen-name%3Araremeatblog%7Ctwcon%5Es2
Sayat-Nova: An 18th-century troubadour by Charles Dowsett.
James Steffen Receives Positive Review for Work on The Colour of Pomegranates by Wade Moricle.
Why a pomegranate? by Patricia Langley.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1118911/
Khakhuli Triptych by Nino Chichinadze.
atinati.com/news/5fffe44ff2482b0038972014
Anchiskhati by Nino Chichinadze.
atinati.com/news/614370bc6287dd00385aabc6
Re-deconstructing the Khakhouli Triptych by Titos Papamastorakis.
ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
Of a Different Script: The Language of Untranslatability in Armenian Cinema by Tatiana Anoushian.
scholarworks.calstate.edu/downloads/df65vd60v
‘The Colour of Pomegranates’ is like Poetry Weaved into a Tapestry of Colours by Srilekha Mitra.
www.youthkiawaaz.com/2023/09/article-on-the-colour-of-pomegranates/
Instagram: instagram.com/mitra__srilekha_/?igshid=190r
The Color of Pomegranates preceded by Seasons of the Year by Dorota Lech.
tiff.net/events/the-color-of-pomegranates-preceded-by-seasons-of-the-year#:~:text=A%20rich%20and%20poetic%20essay,music%20and%20Vivaldi's%20Four%20Seasons.
As an Armenian, seeing an Armenian film intrigue foreign cinephiles makes me absolutely happy. Though I'm ashamed to admit I haven't watched this movie before, I'm hoping to watch it with newly attained understanding of it. Thank you for deeply analyzing the film and talking of our culture in such a fond way ❤️💙🧡
Thanks for watching ☺️🩵 Hope you enjoy watching the film!
A people with a rich culture and history. My father military/college/theology educaited explained it to me that Armenia is in part of a world that suffers extrem turmoil and genocide, the erasure or whole ethnic groups, whole countries are common. Islam has actually made it significantly worse. It's crazy because every single one of us even western Europeans came from around that area originally, its kinda like all our ancestral homeland. Even if your English at one time your ancestor still were tribes that lived there.
It’s not about Armenia the country it’s about Sayat Nova the poet. He lived in Tbilisi (‘Tiflis’). He was half Georgian. Paradjanov made a film about another Armenian poet who was his spiritual and artistic ancestor. It is an homage to a monk who had innumerable children in the spirit.
@@BenjaminSpencer-m1kyour father sounds awesome! And you’re so right! I know many people who have the experience of when their foot steps onto armenia after landing, it feels like they’re “finally home.” There’s a sense of it’s where you’re supposed to be. Both Armenians and non Armenians alike feel this! It’s a weird but cool experience for sure. Also I’m fairly convinced the garden of Eden is in Armenia, next to Lake Van. It’s a gorgeous country and I’m happy to hear your father educated you on the topic ❤ have a wonderful day ❤
@@claesvanoldenphatt9972I think they’re referring to it as an Armenian film because it takes place in Armenia and is made by an Armenian lol not that it’s necessarily only about Armenia! :))
Holy fuck a The Color of Pomegranates film analysis just dropped, I'm stopping anything I'm doing right now
Haha, thank you - first comment ☺️🌸
same thing here girl :D
same. my favorite
I'm just so glad others out there have a fondness as I do for this film. It's hard to relate to any other person over this movie. I've always loved it and never really could say clearly quite why. It's beautiful and visually fascinating but there's just something in watching it I can't quite describe. I just couldn't stop watching it originally it just held me captive. Anyway cheers to you all.
Side note: Sorry! I know I butchered some words; I tried finding pronunciations for every unfamiliar word, but they were either not available at all or inconsistent (i.e. a few people pronouncing things a bit different/some channels or sites also making prank pronunciation of words).
Also, I briefly referred to Parajanov’s film as a ‘Soviet-Armenian art film’ (I think in the beginning). Apologies if this offended anyone.
Though, I hope these mistakes don’t take away to much from the information of the video and celebration of Sergei Parajanov’s work. For more info, see the links provided of extra sources/reading and the link to the Criterion video made by James Steffen; there are more videos on Criterion, but I couldn’t link them all in the space of one comment. 😊🙌🏻
Time stamps (in the description and another comment) and subtitles in English are available.
As an Armenian I adooore going to the Parajanov house in Yerevan whenever I’m visiting the homeland. It’s such a cool experience and I hope one day you’re able to see it too!
Omg. I can’t tell you how thankful to you I am. I have been searching for the name of this film for over 30 years. It came on late at night on PBS. It always haunted me. Thank you
I am so happy that Sergei Parajanov is at last getting recognition - you should definitely watch another one of his films (even if you don’t analyse it) called «Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors»
Timestamps/Video Chapters (here, because they sometimes don't show up):
(Also, I briefly referred to Parajanov’s film as a ‘Soviet-Armenian art film’ (I think in the beginning). Apologies if this offended anyone.)
00:00 - Introduction
04:52 - Structure
05:56 - Censorship
08:27 - Who is Sergei Parajanov?
10:49 - Davtar/Daftar
11:53 - Pomegranates and the Kingdom of Armenia
13:26 - Pomegranates and Parajanov’s Other Works
15:01 - Pomegranates and Fertility
18:28 - Pomegranates and Its Evolving Significance
21:12 - Bleeding Dagger
22:09 - Crushed Grapes and Manuscripts
25:04 - Fish between Two Bread
25:45 - Vase and Kamancha (or Kamancheh)
26:53 - Thorns and Religious Iconography
28:07 - Who was Sayat-Nova?
30:02 - Drenched Books
32:25 - Dyed Wool
34:22 - Nature and Sacrificial (Animals)
36:06 - Baths
36:43 - Surrealism, Parajanov and Freud
38:35 - Homoerotic Subtext
40:41 - ‘The Poet’s Youth’
41:40 - Floating
42:28 - Tableau(x) Vivant/Tableau(x) Aesthetic
44:11 - Mechanical Movement
45:43 - Examples of Mechanical Movement
48:56 - Dialogue
49:27 - Frames, Mirrors and Windows
50:40 - Frames, Cherubs and Anna
52:26- Frames and Graveyards
55:15 - The World is a Window
57:16 - The World is a Cage
58:13 - Mirroring and Repetition
59:00 Sofiko Chiaureli
01:00:49 - Repetition (and Difference)
01:02:35 - Lace
01:03:38 - Pantomime
01:04:26 - Khakuli Icon Triptych/Khakuli Triptych Icon
01:06:40 - King Erekle’s Hunt
01:08:31 - Tomb/Fortress
01:09:27 - The Red-and-Black Sequence
01:10:45 - Llama
01:11:39 - Asceticism and Sensuality
01:13:27 - Soundtrack
01:14:08 - Death of The Holy Father Lazar/Lazarus/Ghazaros
01:15:45 - The Poet’s Dream
01:18:32 - The Nativity
01:19:21 - Nostalgic for Childhood
01:22:07 - Old Age
01:24:37 - Lavash and Graveyards
01:25:54 - The Acceptance of Death
01:26:24 - Skull
01:26:39 - Bleeding Wall
01:27:15 - The Angel of Resurrection
Discovered Parajanov on a visit to Yerevan. Fell in love with his style of storytelling.
didn't think anyone would even try to figure this film out, went over my head lol
Good to see this, one of my favorite directors. I haven't seen Ashik Kerib, but Pomegranates and Suram Fortress are profoundly beautiful expressions of what the camera can show. To me, Parajanov is the same as Bresson and Powell and Pressburger, the camera being used for a new style with infinite artistic possibilities.
I am watching your videos for a year, yet I was so surprised seeing a hour and half long video about Parajanov. As an Armenian, I want to say express my gratitude, thank you very much 🧡🧡🧡
Thanks for watching for a year! ☺️💖
The bleeding dagger made me think about some instances of bleeding during sex. Or possibly when cutting into the pomegranate and the eating of seeds being related to becoming a woman and as more seeds are removed correlate to the loss of youth and by the time the seeds are gone it leaves a useless husk representing a woman post menopause. Idk maybe im thinking too much
That's the thing with art, it's subjective. He might be saying one thing but you can interpret it however you like -- as is life.
@@Lucinda_96 Picture yourself in a boat on a river
With tangerine trees and marmalade skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes
Cellophane flowers of yellow and green
Towering over your head
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes
And she's gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers
That grow so incredibly high
Newspaper taxis appear on the shore
Waiting to take you away
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds
And you're gone
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Picture yourself on a train in a station
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile
The girl with the kaleidoscope eyes
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Ah
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Lucy in the sky with diamonds
Think you reading to much into it or not enough. I think its more accurate to say that anything man does is essentially some sort of bloodshed. No direct connection to a torn hymen but Food and a knife a item with a duel life, one as a tool and the other a weapon. Also a reference to trauma wich can be for a women a torn hymen but if you think only that your going to severely limit the beauty and horror of this art. It speaks deeply on many levels and the whole Hymen idea would be pretty much be the least of these. I've seen some stuff in my life like 50+ people die in 15 minutes, white sheets draped over the bodies. the blood leaks out and stains in a certain way, Ive ate pomegranates and their juice is no were the deep red of veinus or arterial blood so the color has been exaggerated to reinforce a connection with blood.
The truth is about this film that because it is so symbolist and flowing in its imagery, almost like dream like that it lends itself, perhaps over much, to a phenomenon known as paradol. This means that people might overlay or project their longing for their nationalistic impulse, or some other thing that is important to them, over the iconography, when it is not intended to symbolize this at all.
I think the best approach to this is, like most modern art, to simply relax into it, and allow your own mind to gather the impressions, and suggest to you over the course of the entire experience, what it might be about, and to allow your consciousness to address itself to anything that naturally sticks out to you and calls to you and to feel free to ignore anything that does not speak to you. I think that is one of the most legitimate uses of modern art.
Thanks for watching, darling! ☺️🩵🙌🏻
Well said!
This popped up on my recommended, and to say i was surprised would be an understatement. Parajanov is one of my relatives, and i come from a family of artists, filmmakers (and martial artists of course.)
My dad has an old photobook of his childhood which included photos of him and Sergei. Them spending time together, creating things, etc. I have always been happy to share my heritage, and to see this film being shared around and admired to this day makes me so damn happy. Incredible analysis. Thanks for this, god bless.
Ohh, this is great, thank you so much! I know that there's an in-depth analysis of the film's symbolism in Russian which unfortunately hasn't been translated into English, and I was never able to find any equivalent analysis. I'm so glad to see that that gap has now been filled!
Thanks for the comment, Valmarsiglia! ☺️🙌🏻 I also found further videos on this topic on the Criterion Channel, which may be worth checking out if that’s available in your region!
You are awesome for tackling this film. Almost nobody talks about it. I saw it years ago and didn't really know what I was watching but I respected what I thought it was trying to do. I like movies that explode the boring formula that people are spoon-fed to expect. I need to see it again.
Thank you for the comment, OuterGalaxyLounge! ☺️🙌🏻
Update: due to some issues, which I decided not to dispute. Some of the analysis in this video was cut out (from around 30:00 - 31:44) *so this part might cut or not make perfect sense.
Thank you so much for this video! I tried to watch this movie without context but had to stop because i didn't understand it, im so glad you covered this movie so i can rewatch with newer insight 😭💗
Thanks for watching. ☺️🩵 Hope you enjoy finishing the film!
I love LOVE your videos omg, everything about your delivery, analysis and observations are just so delicate and sophisticated, it just scratches my brain in a way that idk how to describe but I just wanted to say your videos are just such a treat!
Aww, thank you so much! That’s very sweet of you. 🌼☺️
Thank you for the breakdown of this film. This film is way above my head. It’s giving me a very uncanny valley vibe and as of right now, I cannot handle that. What I will say is the setting, location, textures, costumes are alive and impregnated with meaning thus serve as inspiration in art.
The way I screamed out of joy when I saw this upload 😂
That’s so nice ☺️🌸 Thanks for commenting!
The film looks so beautiful, and the extensive review ahead of me (to watch at least for awhile) may well be one of the few reviews I have ever enjoyed
When I saw the video title, I did think it was going to be about extracting the different hues possible in a natural process & using them as dyes.
Nonetheless, thank you algorithm for providing this intriguing film/video to wake up to
Thanks for watching Catherine! 🩷☺️
@@yilyau you are welcome!
Sorry for a late view.. 😅
Although the people who worked in the film's restoration urged audience to not find structure I found it quite linear and structured. But it's true that it's not meant to be interpreted but just be visualized. When I caught myself trying to interpret it frustrated me so. So I let go.
Each static image alluded to early Christian Byzantine art in my eyes. The objects too( living or dead) were heavy handed in symbolism (which wasn't a surprise as the use of allegory was mentioned in the prologue itself).
For me pomegranate with it's seeds was life encompassing it's meaning which the poet was trying to understand. By the end anticlimactically though he couldn't and his life slips away mid sentence him trying to define it. But I loved your various interpretations too.♥
Side note: Pedro Almodóvar's Pain and Glory seems very much inspired by this film.
I'm so happy with your choice for this essay. Keep up love.😘
Don’t worry about the late view! You don’t have to watch all my videos. ☺️❤️ Appreciate your support!
@@yilyau No I do look forward to your videos. You always give great insights to the art I love and it often makes me rewatch it with new perspective. 🥰
yt algorithm worked this time! great analysis, great narration, ill have to watch this one!
i saw a reel of this and on God i have seen so many horror movies but none literally none were successful to scare me. But this one lit gave me goosebumps throughout the whole movie and doubt my existence. I got so scared by this movie. Im still traumatized
I find some similarities to a film titled "Holy Mountain"; symbolism and visual storytelling greatly overshadowing dialog. Would be interested in your perspectives on that work if you've had the chance to view it.
Yayyy i was just thinking about this because of armenias eurovision entry
This is my introduction to this film. It’s 100% occult magic. No question.
Loved this essay, and the original movie, it's nice to hear someone else's opinion on this ❤🎉
Big ups for the kasane pic. Great stuff.
Love and blessings!
This movie changed me
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Great analysis, I subbed❤
I appreciate it! ☺️🙌🏻
спасибо большое за анализ.
Wow, I really should watch this movie. Though, it might be difficult to find, but it seems like a wild ride.
I found it here on RUclips for free. :)
I did see this when the restoration came out, but can't remember much about the plot. 😂
Reminds me of a music video Juno Reactor put out in the 90s. The song is call "God is God".
There’s also a lady Gaga video where she took a lot from color of pomegranates :)) idk if she did a good job per se but yeah! And Nicolas Jaar has a whole album of a soundtrack he made for color of Pomegranates (like a soundtrack he made for himself the movie makers didn’t ask him to do it or anything hahah) definitely cool to see all the way it’s affected art!
I immediately want to watch this
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Yae! I love this film
Loved your video!!❤ Thanks!
Thanks, Ananya! Appreciate your insights too ☺️💖
@@yilyau I'm glad you appreciated my insights.🥰
omg i love your channel 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
Thank you! ☺️🩵
Amazing film
Sayat Nova...is what film was invented for.
Lore of An Analysis of The Color of Pomegranates (1969) momentum 100
Thanks for watching, darling! ☺️🙏🏻🙌🏻
Stasis and kinesis, kinesis within stasis, trapped
awesome video thank you 🙌
This is giving Madonna's "Bedtime Story" video!
It’s giving Lady Gaga ‘911’ 🙌🏻
@@yilyau Who is that?
I also want to say that I think the reason that the film was suppressed is because it is not naturalistic, rational, linear, and all of the other things that were so important to Soviet era art. It was just outside of the box and was probably for that reason alone considered immoral and corrupt. I can sympathize with them because their state was relatively new and they wanted to have a coherent message which would inform citizenstowards the direction they wanted to have in their particular state which was communism. I’m not a fan of communism by any means, but I do sympathize with their intent to suppress this piece of art, especially since they were bankrolling it I think they believed in artists per se, because they were communist enough to support the making of the art but when they saw what it was, they knew that they could not promote it. It just happened at history and I’m so glad that we can enjoy it in the present form as being fully restored. I’m really excited to get to know this work.
I get what you’re saying but it’s hard to sympathize with a state that threw many artists and intellectuals to die in hard labor camps just to have a more coherent “message.” But hey you’re right at least now we get to enjoy it so alls well that ends well right ;-) ❤❤ I hope you have an awesome day!!
I could only listen a few minutes. I found the narrator's upward inflection at the end of each sentence too much. Chalk. Black board. Its a shame because the content looks really interesting.
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Ohhh yeah I see what you mean, it is kind of …. hahah not to be mean! Just not an easy flow to listen to. Also they’re making their voice higher pitched too haha, idk it’s not my preferred cadence for an analysis type vid for sure.
hi can u do a analysis of agnetha faltskog
Should I watch first?
Leave it to Marty to know about this.
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My first taste of this wonder was I gues fan made Juno Reactor Video of God is God.
I had no idea this was a actual movie, I just thought it was a music video.
@@hela2000 And how did you find Juno Reactor? Thru Texhnolyze like I did? LoL. I had actually know about this movie for a very very large chunk of my life as my mother really enjoyed it.
Oddly, I found Juno Reactor via the first Matrix movie.
@@hela2000 if you aint seen texhnolyze I would check it out. The OP is their music, dark dystopia stuff like The Matrix.
I have no idea
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I have some pomegranate Nike Jordan 1’s.
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Hypothesis: They're kinda red
Conclusion: yea they kinda red
I don’t know-looks purple to me.
Why do so many people care about weather or not he was nationalistic? He has a beautiful country, of course he should be nationalistic, nationalism is always good.
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People from places like America - especially those who have mixed genetics and have never visited their homeland, will never understand why nationalism is actually a good thing and rather normal if not completely natural
wait, what?
Its like a soviet jodorowsky film
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I clicked so quickly on this, it's not even funny.
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thanks babe
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Dont call him soviet, because soviets destroyed him.
He was soviet though
@@pampelmousesoviet implies he was a communist. My mom grew up under USSR I would never call her Soviet I just call her Armenian :) well really, I call her ‘mom’ hahaha ❤
@@nicofelie my dad grew up under ussr, he says hes from the soviet union not Russia
If he was arrested for homosexuality in the UK in the 1940's he'd be chemically castrated. The ussr was progressive for its time.
should we stop calling chaplin American then! this is blind anti-communism
#yurrrrp
Soviet?????
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Soviet cinematography is superior ❤
Hollyweird as usual from way back
Hollywood is American. This isnt
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This is just so monotonous…..why are you just…..it’s like your reading from a book….it’s putting me to sleep as your voice has no cadence, no rhythm or….inflection. 😑😶 Very odd. It’s just…..boring 🤷🏼♀️ Your other videos from a quick listen of a few….aren’t monotonous like this. What gives? I couldn’t keep listening…..just meh. 🥱 To go on felt way too much like a chore. And I ADORE long winded high intellect film analysis.
Basically this film always looked fascinating but now….it seems boring & much MUCH too xtian based and like it’ll be one monotonous monotone of boredom 🙄😂
Noooo just cuz she talks like she’s a little girl doesn’t mean the movie itself is boring! Or maybe it is boring hahaha I mean all art films kind of are … but you know what I mean :))
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