Pera Film, in collaboration with Altyazı Cinema Magazine and curated by Aslı Ildır, presents the film program Cinéma Vérité: The Truth of the Camera.
Cinéma Vérité, the same as Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov's term Kino Pravda, is a kind of "truth of cinema experiment" that first emerged with Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's Chronicle of a Summer. This movement, in which the presence of the camera is felt and intervenes and changes what happens in the frame, and in which the director interacts with the participants and asks them questions, aims to question the reality that the camera constructs and represents, or the "truth of cinema". The selection includes both classic and later examples of the movement, with films from the US and France, as well as Mexico and Chile.
Film screenings within this program are accessible with a discounted museum entrance ticket. Tickets can be obtained from Biletix or the reception of Pera Museum. In accordance with legal regulations, all screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age unless stated otherwise.
December 15
20:00 Chronicle of a Summer
December 16
16:00 Unfinished Diary
December 17
15:00 The Lovely Month of May
December 20
19:00 Chronicle of a Summer
December 23
16:00 Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography
December 30
16:00 The Devil Never Sleeps
January 3
19:00 Unfinished Diary
January 5
20:00 Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography
January 6
16:00 The Lovely Month of May
January 10
19:00 The Devil Never Sleeps
December 15
20:00 Chronicle of a Summer
December 16
16:00 Unfinished Diary
December 17
15:00 The Lovely Month of May
December 20
19:00 Chronicle of a Summer
December 23
16:00 Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography
December 30
16:00 The Devil Never Sleeps
January 3
19:00 Unfinished Diary
January 5
20:00 Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography
January 6
16:00 The Lovely Month of May
January 10
19:00 The Devil Never Sleeps
Pera Film, within the scope of the Cinéma Vérité: The Truth of the Camera film program, is conducting an conversation with documentary filmmaker and academician Can Candan, moderated by film critic Aslı Ildır.
In his book exploring the cultural history of souvenirs, Rolf Potts discusses how such objects assume meaning through personal stories: Objects turn into memories with the stories they hold.
Inspired by its Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum presents a contemporary video installation titled For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones at the gallery that hosts the Collection. The installation by the artist Nicola Lorini takes its starting point from recent events, in particular the calculation of the hypothetical mass of the Internet and the weight lost by the model of the kilogram and its consequent redefinition, and traces a non-linear voyage through the Collection.
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.
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)
