Pera Film is ending 2017 with the Turkish-Visegrad Culture Festival, celebrating the cinema of Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia. This year’s theme Body and Spirit, explores the inner world of human nature in relation with the body, mind and spirit. The correlation between the mind and the body have been key to understanding the human complexities. Common inquires such as whether the mind is part of the body, or the body is part of the mind has evolved intensely over centuries. Inspired from this complex and diverse situation, the body and mind illustrate a most curious interaction. The program journeys through captivating stories investigating the physical and the intangible notions of existence. Jean-Paul Sartre exquisitely wrote “I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” This selection of films in a sense suspends the air, examining the intricate and curious relationship we have with our bodies, mind and spirit. Body and Spirit spans over several decades and salutes master filmmakers as well as young directors such as Jan Švankmajer, Věra Chytilová, Wojciech Marczewski, Martin Šulík, Ildikó Enyedi, György Pálfi, Virág Zomborácz and Anna Zamecka.
This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
Supported by the Consulates of the Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia
This program is presented in collaboration with the Visegrad Fund; V4 / Visegrad Group is an alliance of four Central European states – Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – for the purposes of furthering their European integration, as well as for advancing cultural, economic etc. cooperation with one another.
December 9
13:00 Daisies
December 10
17:00 Free Fall
December 13
The Garden
19:00 I, Olga
December 14
Daisies
December 15
18:00 Goat
December 16
12:00 Free Fall
14:00 Photon
16:00 Afterlife
18:00 Conspirators of Pleasure
December 17
14:00 The Garden
16:00 Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema
Five October
18:00 On Body and Soul
December 19
19:00 Goat
December 20
17:00 Five October
19:00 Conspirators of Pleasure
December 22
Photon
21:00 On Body and Soul
December 23
14:00 Communion
16:00 Little Harbour
18:00 Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema
December 27
17:00 Communion
19:00 I, Olga
December 28
Afterlife
December 29
Five October
21:00 Little Harbour
December 9
13:00 Daisies
December 10
17:00 Free Fall
December 13
17:00 The Garden
19:00 I, Olga
December 14
19:00 Daisies
December 15
18:00 Goat
December 16
12:00 Free Fall
14:00 Photon
16:00 Afterlife
18:00 Conspirators of Pleasure
December 17
14:00 The Garden
16:00 Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema
18:00 On Body and Soul
December 19
19:00 Goat
December 20
17:00 Five October
19:00 Conspirators of Pleasure
December 22
19:00 Photon
21:00 On Body and Soul
December 23
14:00 Communion
16:00 Little Harbour
18:00 Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema
December 27
17:00 Communion
19:00 I, Olga
December 28
19:00 Afterlife
December 29
19:00 Five October
21:00 Little Harbour
Program Trailer
John Frederick Lewis is considered one of the most important British Orientalist artists of the Victorian era. Pera Museum exhibited several of Lewis’ paintings as part of the Lure of the East exhibition in 2008 organized in collaboration with Tate Britain.
Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’.
The exhibition Look at Me! Portraits and Other Fictions from the ”la Caixa” Contemporary Art Collection examines portraiture, one of the oldest artistic genres, through a significant number of works of our times. Through the exhibition we will be sharing about the artists and sections in Look At Me!.
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