Feeding the River: 20 Years of Anadolu Kültür

Director: Mert Kaya
Türkiye, 2024, 66', DCP, color
Turkish with English subtitles 

Could a table set amid archival records that have been piling up since 2002 serve as a space for memory exchange, a place where the archive and experiences meet? Those who have worked for Anadolu Kültür, an organization which brings culture, arts, and civil society together in many cities around Turkey, tell us what it has achieved in 20 years. Feeding the River is an attempt to contemplate on how Turkey’s distressing issues can be addressed through arts and to rethink the significance of “keeping up against all odds” within the country’s social and political context from an “insider” perspective.

The crew will attend.

Holdstill

Holdstill

Small Finds

Small Finds

Silent Dance

Silent Dance

Wild Women of Anatolia

Wild Women of Anatolia

Yakto Cannot Be Abandoned!

Yakto Cannot Be Abandoned!

No.910

No.910

Night and Fog in Kurdistan

Night and Fog in Kurdistan

Sweet Home Adana

Sweet Home Adana

The Only One. Elizabeth

The Only One. Elizabeth

Between Delicate and Violent

Between Delicate and Violent

60’’

60’’

Feeding the River: 20 Years of Anadolu Kültür

Feeding the River: 20 Years of Anadolu Kültür

Symbols

Symbols

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.

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.