Vincent Dieutre:
Exercises In Solitude
36th Istanbul Film Festival

April 11 - 15, 2017

Pera Film is hosting 36th Istanbul Film Festival! As part of the festival Pera Film will be screeningthe National Short Film Competition, the programs a good neighbor and Vincent Dieutre: Exercises in Solitude, as well as other screenings and events.

An utterly solitary cinematographer, who cannot possibly be compared to, nor of a school or movement he could be deemed a part of; an elegant, graceful, romantic narrator- director, whose obsession for Europe is now accepted as a form of resistance... Vincent Dieutre’s nine extraordinary, definitely avant-garde, strictly autobiographical films are presented as part of this year’s festival program.


Check out the details here.

April 11

16:00 My Winter Journey

19:00 Tenebrae Lessons

April 12

11:00 Roland Wounded

13:30 Bologna Centrale

16:00 Journey Into Post-History

April 13

11:00 Jaurès

13:30 Desolate Rome

16:00 Bonne Nouvelle

19:00 Trilogy of Our Lives Undone

April 14

11:00 Bologna Centrale

Bonne Nouvelle

13:30 Trilogy of Our Lives Undone

16:00 Tenebrae Lessons

19:00 My Winter Journey

April 15

11:00 Journey Into Post-History

13:30 Jaurès

16:00 Desolate Rome

19:00 Roland Wounded

Trilogy of Our Lives Undone

Trilogy of Our Lives Undone

Journey Into Post-History

Journey Into Post-History

Roland Wounded

Roland Wounded

Jaurès

Jaurès

Bologna Centrale

Bologna Centrale

My Winter Journey

My Winter Journey

Bonne Nouvelle

Bonne Nouvelle

Tenebrae Lessons

Tenebrae Lessons

Desolate Rome

Desolate Rome

Program Trailer

Vincent Dieutre:
Exercises In Solitude
36th Istanbul Film Festival

Vincent Dieutre’s nine extraordinary, definitely avant-garde, strictly autobiographical films are presented as part of this year’s festival program.

Midnight Horror Stories:  The Moon Pool <br> Işın Beril Tetik

Midnight Horror Stories: The Moon Pool
Işın Beril Tetik

About a year ago, Ela was dead for seven minutes. Death had come to her as she was watching her younger brother play gleefully in the sandpit at the park. A sudden flash that washed her world with a burning white light, a merciless roar resembling that of a monster… 

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

Portrait of a Bullfighter (1797)

The man is depicted in three-quarters view, turning straight to the viewers with a penetrating glance. The background is grey, while the clothes, the hair, and cap are black. 

The First Nudes

The First Nudes

Men were the first nudes in Turkish painting. The majority of these paintings were academic studies executed in oil paint; they were part of the education of artists that had finally attained the opportunity to work from the live model. The gender of the models constituted an obstacle in the way of characterizing these paintings as ‘nudes’.