Photo Credit: Tsolag K. Dildilian, 1922
Virtual Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Date: Thursday, October 29, 2020
6:00 PM EDT Film Screening (Click to watch the film)
6:30 PM EDT Panel Discussion (Click to watch the recorded discussion)
This event is free and open to the public.
Film Synopsis
During the 19th and early 20th centuries a remarkable family of Armenian photographers, the Dildilians, captured a time and a way of life in Anatolia in central Turkey that was soon to disappear during the Armenian Genocide of 1915. This documentary, which is the product of a unique collaboration between filmmaker Catherine Masud, Dildilian family historian Armen Marsoobian, and a talented group of University of Connecticut students, tells the story of that lost community through the voices of family descendants, supplemented by historical photographs and documents from the family archive.
To request reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities and for any other questions regarding the event, please contact global@uconn.edu.
Panelists
Catherine Masud
Award-winning Filmmaker
Instructor, Digital Media & Design
University of Connecticut
Armen Marsoobian
Dildilian Family Historian
Moderated by:
Heather Elliott-Famularo
Department Head, Digital Media and Design
University of Connecticut
Joined by a select group of UConn Digital Media and Design students that assisted with production:
Aidan Brueckner (SFA '21)
Jonathan Pico (SFA '21)
Bridget Sweeney (SFA '21)
