I’m Here!
World AIDS Day

December 1 - 10, 2017

Pera Film is presenting a special program on World AIDS Day. The program includes documentaries Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures and How to Survive a Plague as well as the award-winning fiction film 120 BPM (120 Beats Per Minute). Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, 120 BPM is a harrowing yet inspiring look back at the activism of French ACT UP protestors during the height of the AIDS crisis in the early 1990s. Electronic Arts Intermix’s curated video program Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS includes the work of George Kuchar, Nate Lavey, Stephen Vider, Women’s AIDS Video Enterprise and Charlie Ahearn. The four videos in the program engage the concept of “home video,” making use of consumer video technology and the aesthetics of the camcorder era to create works that explore the intersections of art, caretaking, family, and home. Founded in 1988, Visual AIDS, the only contemporary arts organization fully committed to raising AIDS awareness and creating dialogue around HIV issues today, has commissioned artist projects which include intimate meditations of young HIV positive protagonists; a consideration of community-based HIV/AIDS activism in the South; explorations of the legacies and contemporary resonances within AIDS archives; a poetic journey through New York exploring historical traces of queer and trans life, and more. Together, the videos provide a platform centering voices deeply impacted by the ongoing epidemic.

Historically and currently, the HIV/AIDS landscape has been borne out of politics, culture, and systems of inequality. Certain populations continue to carry the disproportionate brunt of HIV infection and its consequences. This special program examines how artists and activists have expanded the idea of caretaking and family and navigated the political stakes of domestic life in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, from the early 1980s to the present.

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

December 1

19:00 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

21:00 120 BPM

December 2

14:00 Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

16:00 How to Survive a Plague

December 3

16:00 Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

18:00 How to Survive a Plague

December 9

18:00 Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

December 10

14:00 Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

15:00 Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures

How to Survive a Plague

How to Survive a Plague

120 BPM

120 BPM

Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

Home Video: Media Art in Response to HIV/AIDS

Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

Alternate Endings, Radical Beginnings

Program Trailer

I’m Here!
World AIDS Day

This special program examines how artists and activists have expanded the idea of caretaking and family and navigated the political stakes of domestic life in the face of the HIV/AIDS crisis, from the early 1980s to the present.

Today's Stories: Coal <br>Pelin Buzluk

Today's Stories: Coal
Pelin Buzluk

Inspired by the exhibition Istanbuls Today, Today's Stories series starts with Pelin Buzluk's story "Coal"! TThis series gathers short stories written by authors encouraged by the photographs in the exhibition.

The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The Welcoming of Venetian Balios to Ottoman Lands

The series of paintings depicting the audience ceremonies of European ambassadors hold a unique place among the works of Jean-Baptiste Vanmour of Valenciennes, who lived in İstanbul from 1699 until his death in 1737.

The Captive Sultan

The Captive Sultan

The war fought by the Greeks to shake off the Turkish yoke was closely observed around Europe and, this being the era of romanticism, the events taking place around Greece between 1821 and 1832 became a symbol for national liberation struggle.