Pera Film continues I’m Here!, the film program it launched for the World AIDS Day last year. Taking place on November 30 – December 9, 2018, the program will feature a selection ranging from shorts to documentaries, to examples of experimental cinema as well as cult productions.
The program presents Blue where Derek Jarman traces the meaning of the color blue accompanied by interwoven sounds and experimental music as he relays his personal experiences with AIDS through the diaries he kept after his AIDS diagnosis, Pedro Almodóvar’s masterpiece All About My Mother dedicated to Bette Davis, Gena Rowlands and Romy Schneider focusing on the experiences of a woman named Manuela following the loss of her son Esteban in a traffic accident, Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell, a critically acclaimed documentary by Matt Wolf depicting a compelling portrait of the avantgarde composer and lyricist Arthur Russel who died in 1992, and Alternate Endings, Activist Risings a selection of videos commissioned to six inspiring collectives, highlighting the impact of art in activism by the contemporary art organization Visual AIDS founded in the US in 1988, today dedicated to raising awareness on AIDS/HIV issues.
Free admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
November 30
19:00 Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
21:00 All About My Mother
December 1
15:00 Alternate Endings, Activist Risings
December 2
15:00 Blue
December 5
19:00 Alternate Endings, Activist Risings
December 7
21:00 Blue
December 8
15:00 Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
December 9
15:00 All About My Mother
November 30
19:00 Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
21:00 All About My Mother
December 1
15:00 Alternate Endings, Activist Risings
December 2
15:00 Blue
December 5
19:00 Alternate Endings, Activist Risings
December 7
21:00 Blue
December 8
15:00 Wild Combination: A Portrait of Arthur Russell
December 9
15:00 All About My Mother
Program Trailer
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
You try to remember the future. A bird painted on the ceramic panel in a historical palace has found its place on the wall. The tiles of a church and a mosque have been painted on canvas. The pattern of a centuries-old ceramic plate appears before you on a velvet curtain.
Over the years of 1864 through 1876, Stanisław Chlebowski served Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul as his court painter. As it was, Abdülaziz disposed of considerable artistic talents of his own, and he actively involved himself in Chlebowski’s creative process, suggesting ideas for compositions –such as ballistic pieces praising the victories of Turkish arms.
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)
