Justice For Sale

Director: Ilse van Velzen & Femke van Velzen
Netherlands, 2011, 83’, Color,
Swahili, French, Lingala with English and Turkish subtitles

The film tells the story of the young, courageous human rights lawyer Claudine, who lives in the Congo, and her struggle to combat injustice and immunity. Claudine is investigating the case of a soldier who’s been convicted, she suspects wrongly, of rape. The soldier was found guilty without any evidence. In her quest for justice, Claudine reveals the existence of a system in which the most basic principles of law are completely ignored.

Justice For Sale

Justice For Sale

No Burqas Behind Bars

No Burqas Behind Bars

Invoking Justice

Invoking Justice

Private Violence

Private Violence

Nahid

Nahid

 Second Mother

Second Mother

Dreamcatcher

Dreamcatcher

An

An

Suffragette

Suffragette

Coria and the Sea

Coria and the Sea

Young Sophie Bell

Young Sophie Bell

Trailer

Justice For Sale

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. 

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.