by admin | Apr 20, 2017 | blog
A Visit Home for Varoujan’s Birthday The 20th April 1884 is Taniel Varoujan’s birthday, and it’s an opportunity for us to celebrate the man and his work. It’s difficult to comprehend how such a young person, only 31 when arrested, would have the...
by admin | Apr 17, 2017 | blog
Taniel: a Celebration of Freedom My journey to producing Taniel started with a black and red System of a Down T-shirt. Being a fan of the band myself, that’s the first thing that caught my attention from the other end of the hall two hours before I was...
by admin | Apr 1, 2017 | blog
Հասուն Արտ | Ripened Field I have always loved poetry and everything about it except two things – especially when I was a child: learning a poem by heart, and reading it in public. When I was 12, there was going to be a major poetry assembly dedicated to Varoujan in...
by admin | Apr 1, 2017 | blog
Taniel or Daniel … and visiting Istanbul to find Varoujan’s Constantinople One question people regularly ask me about the film is why did I use the spelling Taniel and not Daniel. Interestingly, this is something I got wrong myself at the beginning but an...
by admin | Mar 21, 2017 | blog
The Beginning: Garo Berberian I was given a book by a friend – it was by Aram Andonian’s book entitled “Exile, Trauma and Death”, and it was an absolutely fascinating read, describing the story of the Armenian intellectuals who were arrested on April...
