Hijabi Girls / The Easter Crumble / The Vast Landscape-Porcelain Stories / Matilde The Big Shake / Pulse

Hijabi Girls

2013, Blu-Ray, Color, 5’, Arabic, English, English Subtitled
Director: Nada Al-Hudaid

The documentary is the portrait of Brajis Chohan, as a fashion designer combining Western clothes and conservative/religious clothing successfully, who made space for conservative clothing in de luxe fashion, whose collections are highly admired in fashion weeks. An insider’s look at hijab’s concept and market…

The Easter Crumble

Poland, 2013, Blu-Ray, Color, 30’, Polish, English Subtitled
Director: Julia Kolberger

Urszula is preparing a traditional Easter breakfast to welcome her daughter and her new fiancé. 
When the couple arrives, the man turns out to be thirty years older than Urszula's daughter. Easter breakfast turns into supper, while Urszula goes through the worst day of her life.

The Vast Landscape-Porcelain Stories

Croatia, 2014, Blu-Ray, Color, 11’, No Dialogue
Director: Lea Vidakovic

A fox hunter and a porcelain shopkeeper lady, the scientist brothers, a seal, a boy and a music box. Six characters in their rooms filled with traces of longing, separated by a vast and bleak landscape. Four stories on love, contemplation and self-destruction.

Matilde

Mexico, 2012, Blu-Ray, Color, 8’, Spanish, English Subtitled
Director: Laura A. Martínez Hinojosa

Matilde, at 72 realises that she has nothing to do other than death and waits. She spends her days contemplating the view through the window of an old bus in Guanajuato city. Untill she confronts the unexpected…

Shake

France, 2014, Blu-Ray, Color, 4’, No Dialogue
Director: Lucie Rico

In every woman’s life is a period when she is in need of a clean shaving blade, and being accepted.

Pulse

Scotland, United Kingdom, 2014, Blu-Ray, B&W, 15’, No Dialogue
Director: Ruth Paxton

Pulse is commissioned by the Royal Philharmonic Society, bringing together two artists, British/Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova and Scottish Director Ruth Paxton to create a new score and film for the PRS for Music Foundation’s New Music Biennial in 2014.  

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum

Reel Herstory: Real History of Reel Women

Reel Herstory: Real History of Reel Women

No Corpse Dumping / Cordelias / Sad Monsters

No Corpse Dumping / Cordelias / Sad Monsters

Vulva 3.0

Vulva 3.0

The Truth Beneath The Ground Guatemala, Silenced Genocide

The Truth Beneath The Ground Guatemala, Silenced Genocide

Kiki of Montparnesse / NewBorns / Blue Blue Sky / #SlutWalkNYC / Cousin Bert / The Centipede and The Toad

Kiki of Montparnesse / NewBorns / Blue Blue Sky / #SlutWalkNYC / Cousin Bert / The Centipede and The Toad

A Cup of Turkish Coffee / Doodle / Child’s Play / Ziazan

A Cup of Turkish Coffee / Doodle / Child’s Play / Ziazan

Hijabi Girls / The Easter Crumble / The Vast Landscape-Porcelain Stories / Matilde The Big Shake / Pulse

Hijabi Girls / The Easter Crumble / The Vast Landscape-Porcelain Stories / Matilde The Big Shake / Pulse

Piecemeal Ostim

Piecemeal Ostim

Marussia

Marussia

Diyar

Diyar

Blue Wave

Blue Wave

Seaside Leisure

Seaside Leisure

Istanbul’s Seaside Leisure: Nostalgia from Sea Baths to Beaches exhibition brought together photographs, magazines, comics, objects, and books from various private and institutional collections, and told a nostalgic story while also addressing the change and socialization of the norms of how Istanbulites used their free time. Istanbul’s Seaside Leisure was a documentary testament of the radical transformations in the Republic’s lifestyle. 

Is he sping on us?  <br>Vajiko Chachkhiani

Is he sping on us?
Vajiko Chachkhiani

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Rational Medicine in Byzantium

Byzantine medical art was grounded in the Greco-Roman medicine transmitted by Hippocrates and Galen and new concepts introduced by such physicians as Oribasios of Pergamon, Aetius of Amida, Alexander of Tralles and Paul of Aegina.