3rd Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival

November 12 - 21, 2021

Pera Film is hosting 3rd Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival.

After a one-year closure period. Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival, is preparing to bring together the most unique works of contemporary experimental cinema with the cinema lovers of Istanbul for the third time between 12-21 November. 

This year's jury is chaired by British academic and artist Chris Meigh-Andrews, author of Oxford's History of Video Art, who designs space-conscious audio and video installations on renewable energies. Other members of the jury are as follows: Australian animation artist Kathy Smith, who is also the head of the University of South California's Department of Cinematic Arts; Florencia Incarbone, founding member, curator and editor of Hambre; Turkish award-winning experimental film director Gürcan Keltek; and artist-poet Ece Eldek.

As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.

November 12

13:30 Competition: Personal Cinema

15:00 Panorama: Colombian Highlights

16:30 Competition: Essay-I

18:00 Competition: A Machine to Live In

November 13

12:30 Competition: Between Motion and Stillness

14:00 Competition: Found Footage – I

17:30 Special Screening: When Forever Dies

November 14

13:00 Panel: Rethinking the Archive

17:00 Competition: Eyes/Eyes
Eyes/Eyes

November 16

13:00 Competition: Ailleurs Partout

14:30 Competition: Fresh Air-I

16:00 Panorama: Emerging Artists

18:00 Competition: The Personal Life of a Hole

November 17

13:30 Competition: Analog Works

15:00 Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 1

16:30 Panorama: Hambre

November 18

13:00 Competition: First Experiments

15:00 Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 2

16:30 Panorama: Portraits - KLEX

18:00 Competition: Animation - I

November 19

13:00 Competition: This is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not Know

14:00 Competition: Fresh Air-II

15:30 Competition: Essay-3

17:00 Panorama: Nomadica

18:30 Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Top Ten Designers

20:00 Competition: Essay - 4

November 20

13:30 Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 3

15:00 Panorama: Tech-Myth

16:30 Competition: Animation - II

18:00 Competition: Autumnal Sleeps

November 21

13:30 Competition: Ethnogeographic

15:30 Competition: Inside The Outset - Evoking A Space of Passage

16:30 Competition: Memory Boom

Panel: Rethinking the Archive

Panel: Rethinking the Archive

Panorama: Colombian Highlights

Panorama: Colombian Highlights

Panorama: Emerging Artists

Panorama: Emerging Artists

Panorama: Hambre

Panorama: Hambre

Panorama: Nomadica

Panorama: Nomadica

Panorama: Portraits - KLEX

Panorama: Portraits - KLEX

Panorama: Tech-Myth

Panorama: Tech-Myth

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 1

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 1

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 2

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 2

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 3

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Program 3

Competition: Analog Works

Competition: Analog Works

Competition: Animation - I

Competition: Animation - I

Competition: Animation - II

Competition: Animation - II

Competition: Between Motion and Stillness

Competition: Between Motion and Stillness

Competition: Essay-I

Competition: Essay-I

Competition: Essay-3

Competition: Essay-3

Competition: Essay - 4

Competition: Essay - 4

Competition: Ethnogeographic

Competition: Ethnogeographic

Competition: First Experiments

Competition: First Experiments

Competition: Found Footage – I

Competition: Found Footage – I

Competition: Fresh Air-I

Competition: Fresh Air-I

Competition: Fresh Air-II

Competition: Fresh Air-II

Competition: Memory Boom

Competition: Memory Boom

Competition: Personal Cinema

Competition: Personal Cinema

Competition: A Machine to Live In

Competition: A Machine to Live In

Special Screening: When Forever Dies

Special Screening: When Forever Dies

Competition: Eyes/Eyes<br>Eyes/Eyes

Competition: Eyes/Eyes
Eyes/Eyes

Competition: Ailleurs Partout

Competition: Ailleurs Partout

Competition: The Personal Life of a Hole

Competition: The Personal Life of a Hole

Competition: This is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not Know

Competition: This is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not Know

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Top Ten Designers

Retrospective of Vivian Ostrovsky: Top Ten Designers

Competition: Autumnal Sleeps

Competition: Autumnal Sleeps

Competition: Inside The Outset - Evoking A Space of Passage

Competition: Inside The Outset - Evoking A Space of Passage

Giacometti’s Final Works

Giacometti’s Final Works

Giacometti was selected for three important retrospectives at the New York Museum of Modern Art, the Tate Gallery in London and the Louisiana Museum of Art in Denmark, all of which were a great success. 

Midnight Stories: The Soul <br> Aşkın Güngör

Midnight Stories: The Soul
Aşkın Güngör

The wind blows, rubbing against my legs made of layers of metal and wires, swaying the leaves of grass that have shot up from the cracks in the tarmac, and going off to the windows that look like the eyes of dead children in the wrecked buildings that seem to be everywhere as far as the eye can see.

Paula Rego in Istanbul!

Paula Rego in Istanbul!

We, by which I mean some of my classmates and I, knew about Paula Rego. I’ll have to admit, I didn’t know where Rego was from or even where in Europe Portugal was. I thought she was English. Let me tell you how I first heard the very un-English sounding name “Paula Rego”