Director: Peter Delpeut
Cast: Joseph O’Conor, Roy Ward
Netherlands, 1993, 71', DCP, b&w, color
English with Turkish subtitles
In The Forbidden Quest, the Irish ship's carpenter J.C. Sullivan tells listeners how he survived an expedition to the Antarctic in the year 1905. He manages to convince his initially sceptical audience by showing them real film footage recording the loss of the expedition’s ship to the ice.
Filmmaker Peter Delpeut – former artistic director of Eye Filmmuseum– , dove into the film archive to construct this imagined story of the sole survivor of an expedition to the South Pole from historical silent film footage. The result is a compelling adventure film about murder, cannibalism and mystic salvation.
The Forbidden Quest incorporates found footage into a thriller-like narrative about the fates of pioneering explorers from the era of Amundsen, Scott and Shackleton. The footage –shot during real expeditions by courageous cameramen such as Frank Hurley, Odd Dahl and Herbert Ponting transports us to the immeasurable cold and silence of polar landscapes. The structure of the film makes one constantly question what is real and what is fake, placing it among the important examples of the mockumentary genre.
Selected from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection, we present the landscapes and places in Istanbul photographs, dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, together with their present-day views!
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.
In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier.
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