Pera Museum hosts 2. International Silent Cinema Days organised by Kino Istanbul.
Bringing together pioneer examples of cinema accompanied by live music, the festival’s corporate partners are Italy’s world famous cinematheque, Cineteca di Bologna, and Eye Filmmuseum, the prestigious film museum of the Netherlands.
The theme for this year’s festival is “Birth of the Modern Woman”, featuring many sections ranging from Diva films, Chaplin and Keaton classics, and never-before published images from the Ottoman era, to German expressionism, Suffragettes, and ‘colored silents’. This year, the festival also presents special screenings to celebrate French movie giant Gaumont’s 120th anniversary and Buster Keaton’s 120th birthday.
In 2015, EYE Filmmuseum published Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema, based entirely on its own archival holdings of films. The Project meets the cinephiles in Turkey with the collaboration of Pera Museum.
December 3
19:00 Charlie Chaplin Shorts
December 4
14:00 Views of Ottoman Empire Selection
16:00 Views of Ottoman Empire Selection
18:00 Nathan the Wise
21:00 Hundred Year Old Films for Pera Museum's 10th Year Fantasia of Color
December 5
15:00 (Sur)real Colors
16:00 Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema
December 6
16:00 Different from the Others
18:00 One Week
December 3
19:00 Charlie Chaplin Shorts
December 4
14:00 Views of Ottoman Empire Selection
16:00 Views of Ottoman Empire Selection
18:00 Nathan the Wise
21:00 Hundred Year Old Films for Pera Museum's 10th Year Fantasia of Color
December 5
15:00 (Sur)real Colors
16:00 Fantasia of Color in Early Cinema
December 6
16:00 Different from the Others
18:00 One Week
When regarding the paintings of Istanbul by western painters, Golden Horn has a distinctive place and value. This body of water that separates the Topkapı Palace and the Historical Peninsula, in which monumental edifices are located, from Galata, where westerners and foreign embassies dwell, is as though an interpenetrating boundary.
A firm believer in the idea that a collection needs to be upheld at least by four generations and comparing this continuity to a relay race, Nahit Kabakcı began creating the Huma Kabakcı Collection from the 1980s onwards. Today, the collection can be considered one of the most important and outstanding examples among the rare, consciously created, and long-lasting ones of its kind in Turkey.
Tuesday - Saturday 10:00 - 19:00
Friday 10:00 - 22:00
Sunday 12:00 - 18:00
The museum is closed on Mondays.
On Wednesdays, the students can
visit the museum free of admission.
Full ticket: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)