A Cat in Paris

  • January 13, 2018 / 14:00
  • January 20, 2018 / 16:00

Directors: Jean-Loup Felicioli, Alain Gagnol
France, Belgium, 2010, 70’, color,
French with Turkish subtitles

A warm and richly humorous film that nods to Pink Panther cartoons, A Cat in Paris is an extraordinary animation that is “a symphony of music and colors” according to Le Monde. The cat in the title is Dino, who leads a double life. During the day, he lives with Zoé, whose mother is a police detective. During the night, he clambers on the dark alleys of Paris in the company of Nico, a very skilful burglar. Dino’s two worlds collide when one night Zoé decides to follow him on his nocturnal adventures only to come across Victor Costa, a dangerous gangster. A breathless chase will ensue now over the rooftops of Paris! Inspired by film noir, A Cat in Paris premiered at the Berlin Film Festival.

A Cat in Paris

A Cat in Paris

The Future

The Future

Rent-A-Cat

Rent-A-Cat

The Strange Little Cat

The Strange Little Cat

Kedi

Kedi

She’s Allergic to Cats

She’s Allergic to Cats

Tomcat

Tomcat

Samurai Cat

Samurai Cat

Neko Ninja

Neko Ninja

Trailer

A Cat in Paris

Turquerie

Turquerie

Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts. 

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.

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.