A retrospective of Sergei Parajanov will be held at the Anthology Film Archives in New York to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the artist.
In addition to Parajanov's most famous films, such as Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, The Color of Pomegranates, The Legend of the Suram Fortress, and Ashik-Kerib, films from the early period of the director's career will also be shown. Early in his career in Ukraine, he made four feature films and several short films, but these are lesser known, and scholars have written little about them, according to the organizers.
The Dovzhenko Center, together with Cineteca di Bologna and Fixafilm, has located Parajanov's early works and created new scans of them. Among them are:
- Andriyesh (1954)
- The Capella "Dumka" (1957)
- The First Young Man (1958)
- Nataliya Uzhviy (1959)
- Ukrainian Rhapsody (1961)
- Kyiv Frescoes (1966)
- Golden Hands (1957)
- A Flower on the Stone (1960-62)
The retrospective will take place in New York from November 8 to 17, organized by the Ribbon platform. It will also feature films from collections of other countries.
Sergei Parajanov was a Ukrainian and Armenian director and the creator of the films Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, The Color of Pomegranates, and Kiev Frescoes. In 1973, Parajanov was accused of "Ukrainian nationalism and homosexuality" and sentenced to five years in a strict-regime labor camp.
Only in January 2024 was the filmmaker rehabilitated by the National Commission for Rehabilitation. The year 2024 was also declared the Year of Sergei Parajanov by UNESCO.
