Keep On Rolling: The Dream of Automobile

  • November 9, 2014 / 14:15

Director: Óscar Clemente
56’, Spain, 2011
Spanish, English with Turkish subtitles

In just over a century, cars have completely transformed our way of living. The automobile drove us towards the dream of the consumer society. Nearly 100 years later, this documentary reflects on the social and environmental consequences of the materialization of this promise.

Not Business as Usual

Not Business as Usual

Into Eternity

Into Eternity

DamNation

DamNation

Keep On Rolling: The Dream of Automobile

Keep On Rolling: The Dream of Automobile

Celeritas

Celeritas

Torre David: The World’s Tallest Squat

Torre David: The World’s Tallest Squat

Infinite Vision

Infinite Vision

Who Cares?

Who Cares?

Wondrous Cures in Constantinople

Wondrous Cures in Constantinople

The shrines that created the glory of Constantinople through their lavish beauty were also repositories of precious relics and thus sources of healing. 

Cameria (Mihrimah Sultan)

Cameria (Mihrimah Sultan)

Based on similar examples by the European painters in various collections, this work is one of the portraits of Mihrimah Sultan, who was depicted rather often in the 16th century.

Félix Ziem (1821-1911) A nomadic, unclassifiable, and eccentric artist

Félix Ziem (1821-1911) A nomadic, unclassifiable, and eccentric artist

French artist Félix Ziem is one of the most original landscape painters of the 19thcentury. The exhibition Wanderer on the Sea of Light presents Ziem as an artist who left his mark on 19th century painting and who is mostly known for his paintings of Istanbul and Venice, where the city and the sea are intertwined.