Wednesday 21 April 2010, 18.30–21.00

Independent filmmaker Atom Egoyan talks about a number of his installations and short films that relate to Arshile Gorky's life and artistic legacy in relation to the Armenian massacres, which are widely regarded as a genocide.

Due to airport closures Atom Egoyan will be speaking at this event via online broadcast.

Tate Modern  Starr Auditorium
£10 (£8 concessions), booking recommended

    

About Atom Egoyan

Through fourteen feature films and related projects, Atom Egoyan has won numerous awards including five prizes at the Cannes Film Festival, two Academy Award® nominations, eight Genie Awards, prizes from the National Board of Review and an award for Best International Adaptation at The Frankfurt Book Fair. Earlier this year he had a full retrospective of his films at the Filmoteca Española in Madrid, following similar events at the Pompidou Centre in Paris and The Museum of the Moving Image in New York. Last year, Egoyan won the Douglas Sirk Award from the Hamburg Film Festival, joining other career honours from festivals and events in Tokyo, Jerusalem, Reykjavik, Las Palmas, Hong Kong, Cairo and The Panorama of European Cinema in Athens.

Egoyan's art projects have been presented around the world including the Venice Biennale and Artangel in London. His acclaimed production of Wagner’s Die Walküre won a Dora Award for Outstanding Opera Production, and his adaptation of Samuel Beckett's Eh Joe was presented by The Gate Theatre in Dublin, where it won the The Irish Times/ESB Award for Best Direction before transferring to London’s West End and The Lincoln Center Festival in New York.

This event is related to the Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective exhibition