Body and Spirit
Central European Films

December 9 - 29, 2017

Pera Film is ending 2017 with the Turkish-Visegrad Culture Festival, celebrating the cinema of Hungary, Poland, Czechia and Slovakia. This year’s theme Body and Spirit, explores the inner world of human nature in relation with the body, mind and spirit. The correlation between the mind and the body have been key to understanding the human complexities. Common inquires such as whether the mind is part of the body, or the body is part of the mind has evolved intensely over centuries. Inspired from this complex and diverse situation, the body and mind illustrate a most curious interaction. The program journeys through captivating stories investigating the physical and the intangible notions of existence. Jean-Paul Sartre exquisitely wrote “I exist. It is soft, so soft, so slow. And light: it seems as though it suspends in the air. It moves.” This selection of films in a sense suspends the air, examining the intricate and curious relationship we have with our bodies, mind and spirit. Body and Spirit spans over several decades and salutes master filmmakers as well as young directors such as Jan Švankmajer, Věra Chytilová, Wojciech Marczewski, Martin Šulík, Ildikó Enyedi, György Pálfi, Virág Zomborácz and Anna Zamecka.

This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.

Supported by the Consulates of the Czechia, Hungary, Poland, and Slovakia

This program is presented in collaboration with the Visegrad Fund; V4 / Visegrad Group is an alliance of four Central European states – Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia – for the purposes of furthering their European integration, as well as for advancing cultural, economic etc. cooperation with one another.

December 9

13:00 Daisies

December 10

17:00 Free Fall

December 13

17:00 The Garden

19:00 I, Olga

December 14

19:00 Daisies

December 15

18:00 Goat

December 16

12:00 Free Fall

14:00 Photon

16:00 Afterlife

18:00 Conspirators of Pleasure

December 17

14:00 The Garden

16:00 Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema

18:00 On Body and Soul

December 19

19:00 Goat

December 20

17:00 Five October

19:00 Conspirators of Pleasure

December 22

19:00 Photon

21:00 On Body and Soul

December 23

14:00 Communion

16:00 Little Harbour

18:00 Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema

December 27

17:00 Communion

19:00 I, Olga

December 28

19:00 Afterlife

December 29

19:00 Five October

21:00 Little Harbour

Daisies

Daisies

Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema

Escape from the ‘Liberty’ Cinema

The Garden

The Garden

Conspirators of Pleasure

Conspirators of Pleasure

Afterlife

Afterlife

Free Fall

Free Fall

Goat

Goat

Five October

Five October

I, Olga

I, Olga

Communion

Communion

Little Harbour

Little Harbour

On Body and Soul

On Body and Soul

Photon

Photon

Program Trailer

Body and Spirit
Central European Films

Body and Spirit spans over several decades and salutes master filmmakers as well as young directors such as Jan Švankmajer, Vera Chytilová, Wojciech Marczewski, Martin Šulík, Ildikó Enyedi, György Pálfi, Virág Zomborácz and Anna Zamecka.

Demons, Symbols, and the Cosmos

Demons, Symbols, and the Cosmos

Beliefs surrounding illness and healing in Byzantium stem from the myths, astrology, and magic practiced around the Mediterranean by Jews, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Greeks.

From two portraits of children…

From two portraits of children…

The Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation’s Orientalist Painting Collection includes two children’s portraits that are often featured in exhibitions on the second floor of the Pera Museum. These portraits both date back to the early 20th century, and were made four years apart. One depicts Prince Abdürrahim Efendi, son of Sultan Abdulhamid II, while the figure portrayed on the other is Nazlı, the daughter of Osman Hamdi Bey.

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.