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.
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.
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.
Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
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