Tatevik Ayvazyan
@tatevik.bsky.social
Writer and Producer at Rebel Republic Films
Guest Editor at Wasafiri Magazine
Cofounder of Armenian Film Festival London
Board Member IALA | Azad Archives
https://linktr.ee/Tatevik_A
Guest Editor at Wasafiri Magazine
Cofounder of Armenian Film Festival London
Board Member IALA | Azad Archives
https://linktr.ee/Tatevik_A
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
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
My darling, immobilised in the gesture
Of reaching toward me. Yet I know
That this is to desire your death.
#IrisMurdoch #OhIris
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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
www.theguardian.com
October 23, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
My darling, immobilised in the gesture
Of reaching toward me. Yet I know
That this is to desire your death.
#IrisMurdoch #OhIris
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/o...
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
#DerekJarman #Chroma
October 4, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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
#DerekJarman #Chroma
Reposted by Tatevik Ayvazyan
🎬 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
🔗 ica.art/films/jukebo...
Followed by an in-person Q&A hosted by music journalist Sophia Hill and a DJ set by Pinks ✨
🕡 6:30 pm, Sat 25 Oct
📍 ICA
🔗 ica.art/films/jukebo...
Followed by an in-person Q&A hosted by music journalist Sophia Hill and a DJ set by Pinks ✨
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...
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October 4, 2025 at 3:37 PM
🎬 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
🔗 ica.art/films/jukebo...
Followed by an in-person Q&A hosted by music journalist Sophia Hill and a DJ set by Pinks ✨
🕡 6:30 pm, Sat 25 Oct
📍 ICA
🔗 ica.art/films/jukebo...
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.
It doesn't mention the Diaspora or Artsakh at all. The 'Real Armenia', whatever it is, has erased them.
«ԻՐԱԿԱՆ ՀԱՅԱՍՏԱՆԻ ԳԵՂԱԳԻՏՈՒԹՅԱՆ ՏԵՂՈՐՈՇՄԱՆ ԵՎ ԱՋԱԿՑՈՒԹՅԱՆ» ՀԱՅԵՑԱԿԱՐԳԸ ՀԱՍՏԱՏԵԼՈՒ ՄԱՍԻՆ - e-draft.am
www.e-draft.am
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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.
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...
September 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
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
Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book of Colour
September 11, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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
Derek Jarman, Chroma: A Book of Colour
Some thoughts on Ginny and Georgia, which I loved
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/ginny-and-...
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/ginny-and-...
Ginny and Georgia
You win more flies with honey, but if you get yourself a bee, sting first
filmdispatches.substack.com
September 9, 2025 at 5:52 AM
Some thoughts on Ginny and Georgia, which I loved
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/ginny-and-...
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/ginny-and-...
Reposted by Tatevik Ayvazyan
📢 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
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
September 1, 2025 at 6:14 PM
📢 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
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.
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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.
Reposted by Tatevik Ayvazyan
'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.'
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
Both a novelist and literary translator, @antonhur.com – Fiction judge for the 2025 Queen Mary Wasafiri New Writing Prize – discusses toggling between being an author and translator, and how each role is treated in the book production process.
The Two Wolves Inside Me: Writer vs. Translator by Anton Hur
Both a novelist and translator…
buff.ly
June 5, 2025 at 8:20 AM
'Everyone helps the author. No one helps the translator.'
@antonhur.com for @wasafirimag.bsky.social
@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:
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#alanhollinghurst #booksky
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#alanhollinghurst #booksky
June 6, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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:
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#alanhollinghurst #booksky
www.theguardian.com/books/articl...
#alanhollinghurst #booksky
A brilliant, thought-provoking, eye-opening essay by one of my favourite writers, Alan Hollinghurst.
‘The fear that with the right promotion homosexuality might really catch on implies an unconscious conviction that the “unnatural” is natural after all, merely awaiting, in everyone, the licence to blossom.’
Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of mid-century gay London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alan Hollinghurst on an anthology of mid-century gay London: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Alan Hollinghurst · West End Vice: Queer London
The queer topography of London emerges in these books like a heat map, flaring in patches round the edges at Shepherd’...
www.lrb.co.uk
May 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
A brilliant, thought-provoking, eye-opening essay by one of my favourite writers, Alan Hollinghurst.
Reposted by Tatevik Ayvazyan
#MosaicMonday
Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic.
Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece.
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic.
Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece.
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
May 26, 2025 at 7:05 AM
#MosaicMonday
Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic.
Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece.
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
Detail from the 'Lion Hunt' mosaic. Late 4th century BCE, from the House of Dionysos. Pebble Mosaic.
Pella Archaeological Museum. Greece.
#ancientbluesky #classicsbluesky
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
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/sinners
Thanks for inviting me to that Bafta screening, @garo1.bsky.social
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/sinners
Sinners
You Keep Dancing With The Devil, One Day He's Gonna Follow You Home
filmdispatches.substack.com
May 7, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/sinners
Thanks for inviting me to that Bafta screening, @garo1.bsky.social
filmdispatches.substack.com/p/sinners
Some thoughts and lots of feelings after watching Pink Floyd's remastered and glorious Pompeii set at IMAX
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Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII
One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces
open.substack.com
April 27, 2025 at 7:56 AM
Some thoughts and lots of feelings after watching Pink Floyd's remastered and glorious Pompeii set at IMAX
open.substack.com/pub/filmdisp...
open.substack.com/pub/filmdisp...
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'.
April 7, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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
We had an exciting evening at ICA, screening the inimitable Stephen Sayadian’s double bill (Dr Caligari & Café Flesh). Thanks to Daniel Bird for restoration & Elena Lazic (@elazic.bsky.social) for her moderation. We're also very grateful to @icalondon and to everyone who turned up yesterday.
March 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
So proud of this screening
Screening this unhinged, spectacular, exciting film, paired with Dr Caligari this Saturday at ICA.
March 28, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Screening this unhinged, spectacular, exciting film, paired with Dr Caligari this Saturday at ICA.
Adolescence: One Shot Shock open.substack.com/pub/filmdisp...
My thoughts on substack
My thoughts on substack
Adolescence: One Shot Shock
Brilliant, brave, difficult to watch series, with phenomenal cast.
open.substack.com
March 21, 2025 at 10:06 AM
Adolescence: One Shot Shock open.substack.com/pub/filmdisp...
My thoughts on substack
My thoughts on substack
Reposted by Tatevik Ayvazyan
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...
vimeo.com/1061818638/7...
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...
vimeo.com/1061818638/7...
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…
vimeo.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:49 AM
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...
vimeo.com/1061818638/7...
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...
vimeo.com/1061818638/7...
Reposted by Tatevik Ayvazyan
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
📍 Register now: bit.ly/3XZ8FGE
March 19, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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
📍 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...
March 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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...
Reposted by Tatevik Ayvazyan
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March 13, 2025 at 3:48 PM
WASAFIRI GOES DIGITAL! 💻
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We’re delighted to offer digital-only subscriptions to Wasafiri. Wherever in the world you are, you can access our ENTIRE back catalogue plus receive upcoming issues with one click.
One year – £25
Five years – £100
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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.
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.
Recently, Ilham Aliyev visited the Aygestan/Baluja village in Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan has settled over 100 families with no connection to the area. In this deeply personal piece, I reflect on what the village means for my identity.
Echoes of a Village: Memory and Erasure in Nagorno-Karabakh — Tigran Grigoryan
Post by Tigran Grigoryan
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March 13, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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.
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.