Shorts From the World

  • March 20, 2019 / 19:00
  • March 30, 2019 / 14:00

Tangles and Knots

Director: Renée Marie Petropoulos
Cast: Leeanna Walsman, Odessa Young, Toby Wallace
Australia, 2017, 17', color
English with Turkish subtitles

The intimate bond between a Sydney mother and daughter becomes threatened when the mother helps her teenage daughter throw a party.

 

III

Director: Marta Pajek
Poland, 2018, 12', b&w
Polish with Turkish subtitles

A sudden meeting of a Man and a Woman begins a hypnotic act – a game of pleasure and discomfort. III is a portrait of a woman in an exhausting relationship with a man, which allures and repulses at the same time.

 

After the Facts

Director: Karen Pearlman
Cast: Esfir Shub, Elizaveta Svilova
Australia, Russia, 2018, 5', color
English with Turkish subtitles

Editors are powerful. They are also usually invisible. Most editors in early film were women. This short documentary looks at Esfir Shub (1894-1959), credited with inventing the remix film, and shows the groundbreaking work of women editors who profoundly influenced some of the masterpieces of cinema.

 

Bloeistraat 11

Director: Nienke Deutz
Belgium, Netherlands, 2018, 10', color
no dialogue 

Inseparable best friends spend their last summer holiday of childhood amusing themselves around the house. As summer progresses their bodies start to morph and shift and an awkwardness descends on their friendship. Puberty seems determined to interrupt their bond.

 

Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year

Director: Jacqueline Lentzou
Cast: Sofia Kokkali, Nikos Zeginoglou, Katerina Zisoudi, Giannis Papadopoulos
Greece, 2018, 23', color
Greek with Turkish subtitles

New Year’s Eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no-one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost heart?

 

How Does It Start

Director: Amber Sealey
Cast: Lola Wayne Villa, Elixa Dean, Lola Reid, Alex Rubin
USA, 2019, 15', color
English with Turkish subtitles

It’s 1983 and 12-year-old Rain is curious sex, the only problem is she has no idea what that means. With her self-absorbed parents distracted by their recent divorce, Rain is left alone to navigate the complexities of love and adulthood, and learns to do it her own way.

 

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Seven Women Seven Sins

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Shorts From Turkey

Shorts From Turkey

Shorts From the World

Shorts From the World

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.