Tatevik Ayvazyan

Bridgerton Season 4 I am the tea that you are having.

Bridgerton love

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The Secret Agent So many sharks!

Lots of thoughts and lots of love for The Secret Agent
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‘Can we have more comedies?’: Armenian cinema processes trauma as country wrangles EU membership – and Trump The second year of London’s Armenian film festival reflects a country in flux as the legacy of recent conflict with Azerbaijan hangs over attempts to strengthen ties with the west

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Iris Murdoch’s poems on bisexuality to be published – read one exclusively here Drawn mostly from notebooks discovered in the attic of the late novelist and philosopher’s Oxford home, a new collection spans 60 years and touches on deeply personal themes

For I could wish to possess you forever so,
My darling, immobilised in the gesture
Of reaching toward me. Yet I know
That this is to desire your death.

#IrisMurdoch #OhIris
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I've been so enlightened, moved, educated, inspired and enriched by this book. It also made me cry a lot. Not exaggerating at all.
#DerekJarman #Chroma

ICA | Married to the Music + Q&A The Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) is London’s leading space for contemporary culture. We commission, produce and present new work in film, music, performance and the visual arts by today’s most...

🎬 The Jukebox Film Club is proud to announce our next screening, the UK premiere of Married to the Music by Garo Berberian (Rebel Republic Films).
🕡 6:30 pm, Sat 25 Oct
📍 ICA
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Followed by an in-person Q&A hosted by music journalist Sophia Hill and a DJ set by Pinks ✨

There is a new and terrifying draft bill/project in Armenia 'on the Concept for Locating and Supporting the Aesthetic of Real Armenia'. www.e-draft.am/projects/910...

It doesn't mention the Diaspora or Artsakh at all. The 'Real Armenia', whatever it is, has erased them.

Sharing my brief blog on Adolescence after their absolute triumph at Emmy Awards yesterday - all very very well deserved, but most of all, Stephen Graham for acting. filmdispatches.substack.com/p/adolescenc...

In the chalky world of Dulux and the colour chart, you remember colour was once bright and precious. There is not a drop of vermilion or ultramarine, congealing today in these rusty cans.
Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book of Colour

Ginny and Georgia You win more flies with honey, but if you get yourself a bee, sting first

Some thoughts on Ginny and Georgia, which I loved
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📢 Applications for our 2025 grants are open!

Whether you're a writer or translator passionate about Armenian literature, IALA's grants offer up to $3,000 in support plus promotional opportunities to share your work with the world.

Apply by September 30, 2025: armenianliterary.org/grants

Nothing more depressing and disheartening for a filmmaker than attending an event about film funding and realising this big, glorious country's main film body supports 6 feature films a year.

'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.'

@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social

I just finished this - probably his best book (I've read all of them). I loved how much it reminded me of Iris Murdoch's writing (and I know he's a fan of hers). There's so much I want to say but instead of my words, read his own:
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#alanhollinghurst #booksky

A brilliant, thought-provoking, eye-opening essay by one of my favourite writers, Alan Hollinghurst.

#MosaicMonday

Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic.
Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece.

#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky

Sinners You Keep Dancing With The Devil, One Day He's Gonna Follow You Home

My new blog, aka a love letter to Sinners. Read it, then go and see it please.

Thanks for inviting me to that Bafta screening, @garo1.bsky.social

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Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces

Some thoughts and lots of feelings after watching Pink Floyd's remastered and glorious Pompeii set at IMAX
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Happy #Easter Weekend! 🤣

I'm listening to @antonhur.com's impossibly beautiful Toward Eternity on the audiobook, reached Eve Delta's story and almost heard the click in my brain going from 'can't wait to see what happens next' to 'oh god, I don't want this to end'.

So proud of this screening

Screening this unhinged, spectacular, exciting film, paired with Dr Caligari this Saturday at ICA.

Adolescence: One Shot Shock Brilliant, brave, difficult to watch series, with phenomenal cast.

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My thoughts on substack

MIND YOUR NERVE ENDS LOVE BUNCH - DR. CALIGARI (1989) DIR. STEPHEN SAYADIAN This is "MIND YOUR NERVE ENDS LOVE BUNCH - DR. CALIGARI (1989) DIR. STEPHEN SAYADIAN" by daniel bird on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the…

Chinchilla! Chinchilla!
Watch this exclusive clip from Dr Caligari, screening next week, followed by a Q&A with the director Stephen Sayadian, moderated by @elazic.bsky.social.
🗓️ Sat, March 29
⏰ 7:30 PM
📍Institute of Contemporary Arts
🎟️ Tickets www.ica.art/films/dr-cal...
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3 days left until Literary Lights 2025! 📖✨ Join @wasafirimag.bsky.social co-editors @tatevik.bsky.social & Naneh Hovhannisyan, Editor-in-Chief Sana Goyal & contributors for a panel discussion and stay after for a writing marathon celebrating IALA’s 4th anniversary!

📍 Register now: bit.ly/3XZ8FGE

Come and see this special, deranged, unhinged and absolutely wonderful Stephen Sayadian double bill and we are excited to have @elazic.bsky.social moderating the conversation. www.ica.art/films/fluore...

Elena - we can't wait!

Yes, we are screening it at the launch of our Jukebox Film Club - not only Cafe Flesh but also his equally fantastic Dr Caligari, please join us!

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A must-read piece from @tigartsakh.bsky.social

Through the deliberate erasure of entire neighborhoods and villages, and the settlement of people with no connection to these places, the Aliyev regime seeks not only to seize physical space but also to manipulate the collective memory of the region.