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

 Who Is Pablo Picasso?

Who Is Pablo Picasso?

Born on October 25, 1881 in Malaga, Spain, Pablo Picasso’s full name takes about two lines: Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Martyr Patricio Clito Ruíz y Picasso.

Five Unmissable Istanbul Paintings of Félix Ziem

Five Unmissable Istanbul Paintings of Félix Ziem

Félix Ziem is accepted as one of the well-known artists of the romantic landscape painting, and has been followed closely by art lovers and collectors of all periods since. He had a profound influence on generations of artists after him, and was the first artist whose works were acquired by the Louvre while he was still alive.

Remembering the Future

Remembering the Future

How can the future be imagined by looking at a collection or an archive? The lasting quality of ceramics allows us to ponder how the future might be remembered through a ceramics collection, since they render conceivable time eternal.