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fìlltS ©*■ t C # t z j f f h i EN 2A Thursday, October 27,1983 Daily Nexus New Directions In Film EDitor: o u OA2- >-¿¿6* From Russia: The Color of Pomegranates' Hugh Haggerty By RONE WILLIAMS First the good news: Sergei Parajanov’s The Color o/ Staff This Issue: Pomegranates is a powerful, mesmerising evocation of a Susan DILoreto time and place (the Caucasus in the 18th century) far ISLA VISTA removed from our own. It is worth the price of admission CITYHOOD Robin GaDlent simply to be able to use the film as a cleansing reminder of Johnny Graham the ignorant isolation of 20th century America and of ourselves in it. The bad news is that if you go to a film ex Juanita Myers pecting to be able to figure out what-the-heU is going on you Rone Williams could be in trouble. KatherlneD. The film is entirely, and obscurely symbolic. The first Ô pass the Soviet censors made at it in ‘09 failed because they Zlmbert couldn’t understand what Parajanov was saying and thus wrote the film off as being harmless. Inevitably, a rat- insider was kind enough to explain to the powers-that-be the To p liffe What If every Day symbols, scene by scene. I wish I had the squealer along for W ater BoarD was Halloween? with me when I saw the film. At any rate the film was banned, surfaced again in ‘73 (the date usually assigned the film ) in Russia, showed up in France in ‘77, and finally has apparently softened on the matter. The filmmaker made its way to the U.S. in 1980. The film was heavily cut himself has not been so resilient. Though acknowledged in and originally disowned by its creator, though Parajanov the West as one of the most talented, if not the most talented, filmmaker to come out of the Soviet Union since the classic silent period, Parajanov has been denied work of any sort since this film. He has passed the time begging, writing ignored scripts, and camping out in a Gulag or two. But none of that shows up very clearly on celluloid. W hat. ü e c f t does show up is a phantasmagorical rendering of the life of HAIR DESIGN FOR MEN AND WOMEN. a Armenian troubadour Aruthin Sayadin, known as Sayat Nove — the King of Song, as seen through the eyes of the latter-day Armenian poet Sarkis Parjanian, known as Sergei Parajanov. The film is divided into eight titled sections that usually appear with a excerpt of the poetry of $ REGULAR Sayat Nova. These are the only English words in the film. 1000OFF $48.50 The two or three lines of dialogue spoken remain^ un ANY PERMANET WAVE Includes Cut translated. Most of the soundtrack consists of primitive sounding regional music and chants that are as exotic as $ OFF REGULAR the images. This adds to the sensation that a profound, 5#0 Men .‘IS** bizarre series of rituals is being acted out before the ANY HAIRCUT & STYLE Women *20’° viewer. The ritual involves life and death, God and man, sex and love, artist and audience, and Armenia and her $ REGULAR oppressors. But the most recent set of oppressors never 200 OFF >j 2>° allowed the film to be shown in Armenia. I imagine that it ANY HAIRCUT. ONLY Men & Women would have been much more meaningful to an Armenian ^Non-student patrons with coupon please J than to you or me. By the way, The Color of Pomegranates is blood-red. In UCSB students get this special offer case you hadn’t heard, the Armenians were treated to the EVERYTIME when presenting student I.D. first, and by no means the least severe attempt at genocide in the embarassing century at hand. 3625 State St. - Santa Barbara There has been talk in critical circles comparing (next to Tee Off Restaurant: Parajanov to Eisenstein and/or Dovzhenko. Any similarity 687-2486 with the former lies only in the truly excellent use of color in the film, which may or may not have been influenced by the ■OPEN 7 DAYS & EVENINGS • Mon. Thru Sun. master’s last film and writings. The stasis of the film and its interest in national folklore make a comparison to Dovzhenko somewhat more palatable but it’s still a case of misguided name-dropping. The achievement of Parajanov lies in his vision of the world and in his primitive pictorial sense. His technique might almost have been borrowed from filmmakers working eighty years ago. It is, however, effective and appropriate, which is what counts anyway. Word has it that the programs traditionally handed out before the screening Sunday at 7:30 will help explain the film. 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Other early performances included dressing up genitals in doll clothes and taking pictures of dead dogs in plastic bags. Neat-0! Tom made us feel lucky to see such •The finest in Martial Arts Training normality. To complement his discussion, Tom also read some of his work and showed some of his paintings. His •Beginner a Advanced Classes work isn’t exactly light stuff about industrial hells where •Quality Instruction Tom Clarke during *Anti-Performance your eyes bleed when you rub them but his did have ByROBIN GADIENT something to say about chocolate bondage exhibitions Offers 20% Discount to Last week, the UCen Art Gallery sponsored a Per where people can buy amaretto tongue depressors. UCSB Students & Faculty formance Art week. Performance art is used to describe For those of you still reading — pay attention! Steve performances done under the aegis of the word “ art.” It’s Sprinkel, the UCen Gallery director is considering another C all or Stop b y somewhat like a play in that it is staged and lasts a certain performance series in winter quarter. This time the per Lee's Tang Soo Do amount of time. It could be anything or, for that matter, it formances will be scheduled during lunch-time instead of h iih h i Miit I i im irn mill im mm in G O LETA, C A 93117 could be nothing. It might be sitting in a rocking chair or evenings. 5764 Hollister Ave. 967-9485 smashing eggs against the side of your head. The fact that the pieces occurred one night after the other for a week tended to make the performances blend together as if each piece was a point along a continuum. In view of the brief idiosyncratic history of performance art which T h e S i x Tom Clark began his “ Anti-Performance” piece, the continuum of performances here at the UCen Gallery ranged from normal to pretty much normal, though nor Pa h S h o p Shampoo, haircut, blow dry mality has nothing to do with merit.

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