Turbulent Times & Familiar Places
Tricky Women Short Animations

March 8 - 12, 2017

Pera Film is celebrating International Women’s Day! The short animation program Turbulent Times & Familiar Places presented in collaboration with Tricky Women Festival and Österreichisches Kulturforum Istanbul embraces women directors. Tricky Women is an international festival based in Vienna and the world‘s first and only festival dedicated exclusively to animated films made by women. The annual festival takes place every year around the International Women‘s Day.

Pera Museum’s Tricky Women selection combines current positions of Austrian femaleartists in animation film and gives an insight into the many techniques and work processes, with which the filmmakers shift the attention to relevant and unprecedented topics: the question where and why you feel at home (HomeStatements), what it is like to arrive in a new city where interpersonal relationships first have to be established (Shut up Moon) and mystical city observations in reference to discarded and newly picked up things (Taipei Recyclers). The greed with which both social and ecological consciousness is shifted from commonality to singularity (Princess Disaster Movie and YachaY). Biographical details (Garten & Schnaps), effects of boredom and opportunities (or lack of) on the periphery (Ginny) and how a woman takes life into her own hands (Two Melons - Birth of an Artist). The unpredictability and predictability of love around the globe and in the neighborhood (Follow You and Der verliebte Koch). The program further includes films that exploit reduced forms using excessive sound (Three Suns) and challenge the mechanisms of cinema and its perception (Machine).

This program’s screenings are free of admissions. 
Drop in, no reservations.

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Screenings
8 March Wednesday 19:00
12 March Sunday 17:00

Lovestruck Cook (2013, 10’00, Verena Hochleitner, Ulrike Swoboda-Ostermann)
Follow You (2013, 3’50, Katharina Petsche)
Garten & Schnaps (2013, 12’00, Amelie Loy)
Ginny(2015, 5’00, Susi Jirkuf)
HomeStatements(2014, 7’32, Maria Weber)
Machine(2015, 2’00, Anna Vasof)
Princess Disaster Movie (2014, 3’24, Xenia Ostrovskaya),
Shut up Moon (2014, 4‘05) Gudrun Krebitz
Taipei Recyclers (2014, 7‘00) Nikki Schuster
Three Suns (2013, 7’49, LIA)
Two Melons - Birth of an Artist (2014, 2’00, Ingrid Gaier)
YachaY(2015, 6’45, Anne Zwiener) 

Take a look  at this program's film list!

Reminiscences of Motifs

Reminiscences of Motifs

As artisanship became a part of artistic practices with the blurring of art and craft, the use of traditional motifs has also flourished. In this context, how are these motifs currently structured or designed beyond their traditional connotations? 

From Cypresses to Turkish Landscapes

From Cypresses to Turkish Landscapes

Among the most interesting themes in the oeuvre of Prassinos are cypresses, trees, and Turkish landscapes. The cypress woods in Üsküdar he saw every time he stepped out on the terrace of their house in İstanbul or the trees in Petits Champs must have been strong images of childhood for Prassinos. 

Dizzying Expression of Fear and Doom Tsang Kin-Wah

Dizzying Expression of Fear and Doom Tsang Kin-Wah

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.  Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.