The Color of Pomegranates
The Color of Pomegranates Credit: Courtesy

An “art film” in the most literal sense, The Color of Pomegranates can be viewed as a moving painting, listened to for its groovy collage of folkloric music and verse, ingested as historical document … just don’t expect a linear story or timeline, despite its logline as a biopic of 18th-century Armenian troubadour Sayat-Nova.

As part of the museum’s monthly Access for All day, this free screening is jointly presented by Orlando Museum of Art and Enzian Theater, with a talkback from OMA Chief Curator Coralie Claeysen-Gleyzon and Enzian Programming Manager Tim Anderson.

At the risk of linking art to crude physical processes, Pomegranates’ lapidary quality may have its roots in filmmaker Sergei Parajanov’s childhood: His father, an Armenian gem importer often harassed by Soviet authorities, would sometimes force him to swallow small pieces of jewelry and defecate them after the raids. Swallowing pain and shitting out beauty — it’s almost the definition of art, no?

6 p.m. Thursday, July 16, Orlando Museum of Art, 2416 N. Mills Ave., enzian.org, free.

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This article appears in July 15-21, 2026.

Jessica Bryce Young has been working with Orlando Weekly since 2003, serving as copy editor, dining editor and arts editor before becoming editor in chief in 2016.