As part of an ongoing project by Daniel Bird involving Armenia’s leading composer, Tigran Mansurian, Elvin Brandhi is developing a new sound work involving site recordings and samples from Armenia’s radio archive, here presented as a live performance accompanying a film-triptych edited from outtakes, screen and camera tests from The Colour of Pomegranates.

In the original film, the life of the poet Sayat Nova served as a springboard for the wayward director’s fantasy. Thanks in part to censorship from the authorities, Parajanov’s wildest imaginings were missing from the final cut. After rummaging through the editing bins of a defunct Soviet film studio, all that was repressed now takes centre stage.