by T | Apr 20, 2020 | blog
It seems quite amazing that one year ago today we were standing in Istanbul reciting a poem by Taniel Varoujan on his birthday with our lovely friends and talented actors Yegya and Lara. It was a poignant and sad, having traveled to the city to screen our film...
by T | Oct 21, 2019 | blog
I was driving, when the National Poetry Librarian Chris McCabe called me. ‘Tatevik’, he said ‘any chance you have some time to talk about Taniel Varoujan’s poetry?’ ‘How much time have you got?’, I said. (If you know me, you also know that I haven’t stopped talking...
by T | Sep 22, 2018 | blog
Reading Varoujan has always been a physical sensation for me – dizzying, dazzling, taking your breath away. His words, his perfect lines, his poems, condensed with emotion have always affected me since I was 12 and had to learn his ‘Ripened Field’ by heart for a...
by admin | Mar 8, 2018 | blog
Director – Garo Berberian Unable to film in Turkey, our locations and cast came from the Armenian town of Gyumri. Our lead actor, Tigran Gaboyan, one of Armenia’s top theatre stars, was asked to perform without speaking because I wanted Taniel Varoujan’s words...
by admin | Jan 29, 2018 | blog
Garo Berberian – Director Sitting in my dad’s kitchen, drinking tea, the conversation of actor Sean Bean came up. As a British Director, it was really important for me to have an English voice for “Taniel” but it was not just an emotional decision: in 1915 the...
by admin | Jan 25, 2018 | blog
We have two strands of voice in “Taniel”: original Varoujan poetry read in Armenian, giving us a sense of the poet, his feelings and emotions through his words, and narrative poetry written by Ben Hodgson in English telling the story of the film, the connective glue...
