In collaboration with Life100, an exhibition at the Glendale Brand Library, in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies will present an afternoon of short films produced by filmmakers from Armenia and Turkey on Sunday, March 22, 2015, 2-7 p.m. at Brand Library (1601 W. Mountain Street) in Glendale. The same program will be repeated at USC Campus on April 23, 2015.
For Immediate
Release
March 16, 2015
USC INSTITUTE OF
ARMENIAN STUDIES
University
of Southern California
Los
Angeles, California, USA
Contact:
Salpi Ghazarian, Director
213.821.3943
Armenians and Turkey: A Day of
Documentary and Short Films
In
collaboration with Life100, an exhibition at the Glendale Brand Library, in
honor of the 100 year anniversary of the Armenian Genocide, the USC Institute
of Armenian Studies will present an afternoon of short films produced by
filmmakers from Armenia and Turkey on Sunday, March 22, 2015, 2-7 p.m. at Brand
Library (1601 W. Mountain Street) in Glendale. The same program will be
repeated at USC Campus on April 23, 2015.
Many
of the films are award-winning and all focus on the complex relations between
Armenians and the Turks in the century after the genocide. All films are subtitled in English.
Refreshments
will be available throughout the afternoon and visitors are welcome to come and
stay as long or as short as possible.
Schedule:
2:00 PM Saroyanland
by Lusin Dink 72’
Saroyanland is a docu-drama focusing on the journey of famous
writer William Saroyan to the birthplace of his Armenian family Bitlis, in
Turkey in 1964
3:15 PM Barking
Island by Serge Avedikian 15’
Winner of Palme d’Or Cannes 2010,
Barking Island, an animated film, is set in Constantinople in 1910 and follows
30,000 dogs forced into exile, abandonment and death.
3:30 PM Neighbors by Gor Baghdasaryan 52’
The Armenian village
Bagaran and the Turkish village Khalikislak, on opposite sides of the
Armenian-Turkish border, within eyesight and earshot of each other, are in fact
neighbors.
4:20 PM Break 10’
An
Armenian folk song arranged and performed by Turkish musicians, in Memoriam
April 24.
4:40 PM The
Son of the Olive Merchant by Mathieu Zeitindjioglou 77’
Anna
married Mathieu and they traveled to Turkey to find and understand the roots of
his family and his long last name.
6:00 PM My
Bolis: Yasar Kurt by CivilNet 9’
One in a
series of views of today’s Istanbul, the old Bolis, through the eyes of artist
Yasar Kurt.
6:10 PM An
Armenian Journey by Ted Bogosian 58’
The first
film to appear on American public television on the Armenian Genocide, the film
traces the memories of Mariam Davis, a child survivor adopted by an American
family, 70 years earlier.
Please
call 213.821.3943 with questions regarding the event, including parking and
directions.
About the
Institute
Established in
2005, the USC Institute of Armenian Studies supports multidisciplinary
scholarship to re-define, explore and study the complex issues that make up the
contemporary Armenian experience — from post-Genocide to the developing
Republic of Armenia to the evolving Diaspora. The institute encourages
research, publications and public service, and benefits from communication
technologies that link together the global academic and Armenian communities.
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