Hear Me Sometimes
Director: Sofia Theodore-Pierce
USA, 2020, 14’ 22’’, HDD, color
English with Turkish subtitles
Butterfly as verb, Butterfly as birth control, Butterfly as precarious achievement, Butterfly as speed, Butterfly as sleeping dram, and someone to love in 157 years. The monarch migration and an unearthed cassette tape correspondence form a storm speaking towards motherhood, loss, expectation, care and legacy.
I Was a Free Dog
Director: Yuula Benivolski
Canada, 2020, 11’, HDD, b&w
No Dialog
Two sisters meet in a dream, and swim together for the first time since they were kids. Sound recordings from their childhood accompany this landscape: an orchestra of air raid sirens, barking dogs and tropical birds exist all at once, and indicate that we are within multiple realities.
The Flame of the Spent Hour
Director: Roger Deutsch
Hungary, 2020, 8’, HDD, color
No Dialog
Hour by hour the ancient face of repeated / Beings changes, and hour by hour, / Thinking, we get older. / Everything passes, unknown, and the knower / Who remains knows he knows not. / But nothing, Aware or unaware, returns. / Equals, therefore, of what isn’t our equal, / Let us preserve, in the heat we remember, / The flame of the spent hour. Ricardo Reis (Fernando Pessoa)
Wellow
Director: Sally Waterman
UK, 2020, 11’, HDD, color
English with Turkish subtitles
‘Wellow’ dwells upon place, ancestry, mortality and religion, triggered by the redevelopment of the filmmaker's late Grandfather’s Baptist church on the Isle of Wight, UK. Extracted quotations from T.S Eliot’s poem, ‘Four Quartets’, along with a telephone conversation with her mother, recorded during lockdown illuminate themes of time, memory, life cycles through this English village community.
Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day.
Selected from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection, we present the landscapes and places in Istanbul photographs, dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, together with their present-day views!
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.
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: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
