Tales of Tails
Dogs on Screen

February 10 - 28, 2017

Pera Film’s new program brings together stories of dogs from all around the world as part of Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation İstanbul Research Institute’s The Four-Legged Municipality: Street Dogs of İstanbul exhibition. Tales of Tails: Dogs on Screen explores how cinema reserves a heart-warming celebration of genres and captivating stories of man’s best friend: dogs. The program captures emotions of humans and dogs alike; the collected films come in a variety of visual narratives from drama, comedy, horror, animation, documentaries to the avant-garde. Whether it’s in Patagonia or Budapest, in Oregon or a deserted island in the ocean, these ‘stars with tails’ become symbols of hope or rebellion. In these films, dogs may be a reason to live for their owners and we get to know people through their relationships with these dogs.

Now it is time to wander in these cinematic streets with Bombón, Hagen, Lucy, Truman, Tulip, Otto, Baxter, Lolabelle and many others!

#DogsOnScreen

February 10

19:00 Truman

21:00 Family Film

February 11

14:00 Wendy and Lucy

16:00 Wiener-Dog

18:00 Truman

February 12

14:00 Best in Show

16:00 My Dog Tulip

18:00 Family Film

February 17

20:00 Bombón: El Perro

February 18

14:00 Bombón: El Perro

16:00 White God / Fehér isten

19:00 Baxter

February 22

19:00 Wiener-Dog

February 23

19:00 My Dog Tulip

February 24

21:00 Heart of a Dog

February 25

13:00 Best in Show

15:00 Heart of a Dog

16:30 Wendy and Lucy

19:00 White God / Fehér isten

February 28

19:00 Baxter

Bombón: El Perro

Bombón: El Perro

White God / Fehér isten

White God / Fehér isten

Wendy and Lucy

Wendy and Lucy

Wiener-Dog

Wiener-Dog

Truman

Truman

Best in Show

Best in Show

My Dog Tulip

My Dog Tulip

Family Film

Family Film

Baxter

Baxter

Heart of a Dog

Heart of a Dog

Program Trailer

Tales of Tails
Dogs on Screen

Tales of Tails: Dogs on Screen explores how cinema reserves a heart-warming celebration of genres and captivating stories of man’s best friend: dogs.

Midnight Horror Stories: The Landlord <br> Hakan Bıçakcı

Midnight Horror Stories: The Landlord
Hakan Bıçakcı

Three people sleeping side by side. On the uncomfortable seats of the stuffy airplane in the air. Three friends. I’m the friend in the window seat. The other two are a couple, Emre and Melisa. I’m alone, they are together. And another difference. I’ve only closed my eyes. They are asleep.

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art. 

The Search for Form

The Search for Form

A series of small and rather similar nudes Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu and Eren Eyüboğlu produced in the early 1930s almost resemble a ‘visual conversation’ that focus on a pictorial search. It is also possible to find the visual reflections of this earlier search in the synthesis Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu reached with his stylistic abstractions in the 1950s.