This restoration of Sergei Paradjanov's classic film The Color of Pomegranates has been financed by The Film Foundation in cooperation with Martin Scorcese's World Cinema Project, and adapted to 4K by L'immagine Ritrovata. The restoration premiered in Cannes this year, proving a welcome digital upgrade for one of the greatest visual feasts in cinema history. A Georgian-born Armenian, the director Paradjanov was famed for making highly idiosyncratic films combining expressionistic camera techniques, ethnography and the narrative of folktales. He is credited with founding the new "pictorial school" of 1960s Soviet Cinema. However, his inventiveness found him out of favour with the Soviet authorities and he was imprisoned in 1974. Pardjanov's masterpiece was The Color of Pomegranates, based on the life and works of the 18th Century Armenian poet Aruthin Sayadian. The film was made in 1968 but not seen internationally until 1977, when it was immediately acclaimed for its stunning visuals, inspired by Persian miniatures. It is poetry in motion. *Kaleem Aftab
• Friday, October 24, 4.15pm, Vox 1
