I’m Here!

December 1 - 11, 2024

Pera Film continues its annual I’m Here! program, initiated to raise awareness for World AIDS Day, with the video selection Red Reminds Me… curated by the contemporary art organization Visual AIDS.

Red Reminds Me… consists of seven videos created by artists worldwide, reflecting the emotional spectrum of living with HIV today. The program takes its name from the words of Stacy Jennings, an activist and poet who has lived with HIV for many years: “Red reminds me, red reminds me, red reminds me … to be free.” Jennings associates the color red with freedom, subverting its conventional associations and offering a new perspective on the complexities of living with HIV.

Through the red ribbon and other visual symbols, HIV and AIDS have long been linked to red and its connotations of blood, pain, tragedy, and anger. Red Reminds Me… invites spectators to consider the multifaceted imagery and emotions surrounding HIV, including themes of eroticism and intimacy, motherhood and kinship, luck and fate, memory and the unforgettable. The artists in the program employ elements of parody, melodrama, theater, irony, and horror to forge a new narrative language that represents HIV today.

This program’s screenings are free admission. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age unless stated otherwise.

December 1

17:00 Dear Kwong Chi

El Club del SIDA

Realms Remix

Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck

HIV Fell in Love with Me

it’s giving

LUCID NIGHTMARE

December 11

17:30 Dear Kwong Chi

El Club del SIDA

Realms Remix

Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck

HIV Fell in Love with Me

it’s giving

LUCID NIGHTMARE

Dear Kwong Chi

Dear Kwong Chi

El Club del SIDA

El Club del SIDA

Realms Remix

Realms Remix

Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck

Ambivalence: On HIV & Luck

HIV Fell in Love with Me

HIV Fell in Love with Me

it’s giving

it’s giving

LUCID NIGHTMARE

LUCID NIGHTMARE

Dancing on Architecture

Dancing on Architecture

I think it was Frank Zappa – though others claim it was Laurie Anderson – who said in an interview that ‘writing on music is much like dancing on architecture’. 

Soothsayer Serenades I Two-handed by Kübra Uzun

Soothsayer Serenades I Two-handed by Kübra Uzun

Today we are thrilled to present the first playlist of Amrita Hepi’s Soothsayer Serenades series as part of the Notes for Tomorrow exhibition. The playlist titled Two-handed is presented by Kübra Uzun on Pera Museum’s Spotify account.

Giacometti’s Final Works

Giacometti’s Final Works

Giacometti was selected for three important retrospectives at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery in London and the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, all of which were a great success.