I’m Here!

December 1 - 15, 2022

Pera Film, launched every year to raise awareness on World AIDS Day, I’m here! continues this year with the selection of Visual AIDS, a contemporary art organization.

Being & Belonging is a program of seven short videos from artists living with HIV across the world. From navigating sex and intimacy to confronting stigma and isolation, Being & Belonging centers the emotional realities of living with HIV today. How does living with HIV shift the ways that a person experiences, asks for, or provides love, support, and belonging? The seven videos are a call for belonging from those that have been stigmatized within their communities or left out of mainstream HIV/AIDS narratives.

This program’s screenings are free admission. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.

December 1

19:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 2

20:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 9

20:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

December 15

19:00 Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

Vertical Memory

Vertical Memory

Kiss of Life

Kiss of Life

Nuance

Nuance

Los Amarillos

Los Amarillos

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

We Are Here: Voices of Black Women Who Live with HIV

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Red Flags, a Love Letter

Lxs dxs bichudas

Lxs dxs bichudas

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

A Salon exhibition held in the Grand Palais in Paris on May 1, 1906 showcased an Ottoman painting. This was Osman Hamdi Bey’s famous “Tortoise Trainer”. 

Dancing on Architecture

Dancing on Architecture

I think it was Frank Zappa – though others claim it was Laurie Anderson – who said in an interview that ‘writing on music is much like dancing on architecture’. 

The Battle of Varna

The Battle of Varna

Over the years of 1864 through 1876, Stanisław Chlebowski served Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul as his court painter. As it was, Abdülaziz disposed of considerable artistic talents of his own, and he actively involved himself in Chlebowski’s creative process, suggesting ideas for compositions –such as ballistic pieces praising the victories of Turkish arms.