“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
Jean-Luc Godard
Pera Film’s new program is a “loving” homage entitled, Cinema I Love You. The program showcases a selection of intriguing documentaries and fiction films celebrating cinema and the love for cinema.
Dziga Vertov in 1923 said “We cannot make our eyes better than they have been made, but the movie camera we can perfect forever.” And so decades later, cinema continues to be in the midst of perfecting itself – whether it is through extraordinary directing, acting or storytelling, we have become addicted to the silver screen. This addiction reflects the intense love and labor that cinema is based upon. Cinema I Love You coincides with Valentine’s Day, but instead of revisiting romantic narrative films, the program journeys through stories, real and imaginary, that praise and rejoice the art of filmmaking. John Berger describes the cinematic experience as “what is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.” And so, we love cinema!
Part of this program is presented in collaboration with institute français
February 14
14:00 Contempt
16:00 Bardot, la Méprise
February 15
14:00 Inferno
February 21
15:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
February 27
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
21:00 Be Kind Rewind
February 28
14:00 Be Kind Rewind
16:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
19:00 Room 237
March 4
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
March 5
19:00 Beaches of Agnès
March 6
19:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
21:00 Contempt
March 7
13:00 Inferno
15:00 Bardot, la Méprise
17:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
19:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
March 8
14:00 Beaches of Agnès
16:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
18:00 Room 237
February 14
14:00 Contempt
16:00 Bardot, la Méprise
February 15
14:00 Inferno
February 21
15:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
February 27
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
21:00 Be Kind Rewind
February 28
14:00 Be Kind Rewind
16:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
19:00 Room 237
March 4
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
March 5
19:00 Beaches of Agnès
March 6
19:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
21:00 Contempt
March 7
13:00 Inferno
15:00 Bardot, la Méprise
17:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
19:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
March 8
14:00 Beaches of Agnès
16:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
18:00 Room 237
Program Trailer
J. Berger describes the cinematic experience as: what is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives
“A nameless Egyptian fresco, an African idol or a vase from Crete: we should behold Pirosmani’s art among them. Only this way it is possible to conceive it genuinely … …You see Pirosmani – you believe in Georgia”.
Grigol Robakidze
French artist Félix Ziem is one of the most original landscape painters of the 19thcentury. 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.
Objects also bear the memory of the geography to which they relate. Ceramics, with soil as their primary material, are directly linked to the land where they are produced: forging a direct relationship with earth, ceramics bear the memory of the soil where they come from.
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)
