“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”
Jean-Luc Godard
Pera Film’s new program is a “loving” homage entitled, Cinema I Love You. The program showcases a selection of intriguing documentaries and fiction films celebrating cinema and the love for cinema.
Dziga Vertov in 1923 said “We cannot make our eyes better than they have been made, but the movie camera we can perfect forever.” And so decades later, cinema continues to be in the midst of perfecting itself – whether it is through extraordinary directing, acting or storytelling, we have become addicted to the silver screen. This addiction reflects the intense love and labor that cinema is based upon. Cinema I Love You coincides with Valentine’s Day, but instead of revisiting romantic narrative films, the program journeys through stories, real and imaginary, that praise and rejoice the art of filmmaking. John Berger describes the cinematic experience as “what is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives.” And so, we love cinema!
Part of this program is presented in collaboration with institute français
February 14
14:00 Contempt
16:00 Bardot, la Méprise
February 15
14:00 Inferno
February 21
15:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
February 27
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
21:00 Be Kind Rewind
February 28
14:00 Be Kind Rewind
16:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
19:00 Room 237
March 4
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
March 5
19:00 Beaches of Agnès
March 6
19:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
21:00 Contempt
March 7
13:00 Inferno
15:00 Bardot, la Méprise
17:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
19:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
March 8
14:00 Beaches of Agnès
16:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
18:00 Room 237
February 14
14:00 Contempt
16:00 Bardot, la Méprise
February 15
14:00 Inferno
February 21
15:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
February 27
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
21:00 Be Kind Rewind
February 28
14:00 Be Kind Rewind
16:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
19:00 Room 237
March 4
19:00 This Film Is Not Yet Rated
March 5
19:00 Beaches of Agnès
March 6
19:00 A Trip to the Moon
The Extraordinary Voyage
21:00 Contempt
March 7
13:00 Inferno
15:00 Bardot, la Méprise
17:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
19:00 The Pervert's Guide To Cinema
March 8
14:00 Beaches of Agnès
16:00 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
18:00 Room 237
Program Trailer
J. Berger describes the cinematic experience as: what is saved in the cinema when it achieves art is a spontaneous continuity with all mankind. It is not an art of the princes or the bourgeoisie. It is popular and vagrant. In the sky of the cinema people learn what they might have been and discover what belongs to them apart from their single lives
He didn’t expect this from me. And I hadn’t expected that we would decide to get married that day, at that moment. Everything happened all of a sudden, but exactly like it was supposed to happen in our day. We thought of the idea of marriage simultaneously, we smiled simultaneously, blinking and opening our eyes in unison.
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”
Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humorous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.
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)
