Talk
November 22, 2023 / 20:00
Eva Stefani, the renowned figure of the Greek avant-garde, is coming to Istanbul for the screening of her 1985 debut film Athens (Athinai) and will conduct a masterclass discussing the documentary’s position in cinema as an independent artistic creation.
The event will take place at the Pera Museum Auditorium as part of the Greek Film Days. Free admissions. The event will be held in English with Turkish consecutive translation. Limited space, drop in, no reservations.
About Eva Stefani
Eva Stefani is a filmmaker, visual artist, and poet. Using video and Super 8 film, she creates observational documentaries and short visual poems. Among her notable films are Acropolis (2001), The Box (2004), Bathers (2008), Dimitris Papaioannou (2012), Manuscript (2017), Virgin’s Temple (2017), and Days and Nights of Demetra K. (2021). Stefani, whose works have been showcased in international exhibitions, is also the editor of the Film Series at Patakis Publications in Athens and the author of the books Documentary: The Observation Game (2016) and 10 Texts on Documentary (2007). Stefani, who is a cinema professor at the Department of Communication and Media Studies at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, also serves as the director of the Master's program titled "Cultural and Cinematic Studies" within the same department.
Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined. Through the exhibition, we will be sharing detailed information about the artist and the artworks.
How can the future be imagined by looking at a collection or an archive? The lasting quality of ceramics allows us to ponder how the future might be remembered through a ceramics collection, since they render conceivable time eternal.
Each memory tells an intimate story; each collection presents us with the reality of containing an intimate story as well. The collection is akin to a whole in which many memories and stories of the artist, the viewer, and the collector are brought together. At the heart of a collection is memory, nurtured from the past and projecting into the future.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
