“The minute we left, we started going home, and we are still going home. I am still on my journey home.”
Jonas Mekas
Pera Film starts 2020 with road stories. Running alongside A Road Story exhibition, Pera’s program features six films that focus on the state of setting out on a journey and how feelings transform on the road.
Scheduled on 5 February – 1 March 2020, Reminiscences of a Journey program presents: one of the most impressive road story movies, Badlands -Terrence Malick’sfirst feature-length based on the true story of serial killer Charles Starkweather; Tickets: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach’s collaborative work that tells three intersecting stories on a journey from Eastern Europe to Rome; I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You: sent to a semi-arid isolated region in the northeast of Brazil for a survey, geologist José Renato feels and profoundly reflects on the screen the most striking forms of the emptiness, a sense of abandonment and isolation; Big Easy Express: documentary capturing a musical journey of three bands, six cities, a train and thousands of miles on the tracks; and last but not least American Honey: the story of 18 year old Star, who suddenly decides to leave behind her troubled life of domestic violence and poverty to join a traveling sales crew selling subscriptions door to door.
February 5
19:00 Badlands
February 9
15:00 Big Easy Express
February 14
19:30 American Honey
February 16
15:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 19
19:00 Badlands
February 26
19:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 28
19:30 American Honey
February 29
15:00 Big Easy Express
February 5
19:00 Badlands
February 9
15:00 Big Easy Express
February 14
19:30 American Honey
February 16
15:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 19
19:00 Badlands
February 26
19:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 28
19:30 American Honey
February 29
15:00 Big Easy Express
Program Trailer
The series of paintings depicting the audience ceremonies of European ambassadors hold a unique place among the works of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour of Valenciennes, who lived in İstanbul from 1699 until his death in 1737.
Works by a large number of students from the Academy of Fine Arts in Sarajevo deal with current and often painful themes from the socio-political, economic and cultural reality, raising awareness, appealing, warning, opening issues and offering new interpretations.
Isabel Muñoz is a Spanish photographer renowned for her captivating monochromatic portraits of individuals and cultures from around the world. Her works have been widely exhibited in numerous galleries and museums globally.
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)
