On the 40th anniversary of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s (1922-1975) death, Pera Film in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Italian Institute of Culture in Istanbul is organizing a film program commemorating him and his work. Pasolini, a filmmaker, a poet, a novelist, a playwright, a painter, a critic and intellectual, was not only one of Italy’s most prominent figures for much of his life, he remains that, but, more importantly, he is a figure who belongs to the world.
Pier Paolo Pasolini’s ability to simultaneously embrace conflicting philosophies—he was both a Catholic and a Marxist; modern-minded, openly gay; who looked to the distant past for inspiration and comfort. What he is best known for is undoubtedly his subversive body of film work. He was a student of the written word, and among his earliest movie jobs was writing additional dialogue for Federico Fellini’s Nights of Cabiria (1957). Soon he was directing his first film, Accattone (1961), a tale of street crime whose style and content greatly influenced the debut feature of his friend Bernardo Bertolucci, La commare secca (1962), for which Pasolini also supplied the original story. The outspoken and always political Pasolini’s films became increasingly scandalous—even, to some minds, blasphemous—from the gritty reimagining of the Christ story The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964) to the bawdy medieval tales in his Trilogy of Life (1971–1974). Tragically, Pasolini was found brutally murdered weeks before the release of his final work, the grotesque, Marquis de Sade–derived Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975) provides a violent essay on Italy's Nazi-fascist past and still is one of the world’s most controversial films. Writer Ed Vulliamy, in his Guardian article meticulously remarks: “Pasolini had died, so history insists, as though in a scene from one of his films. ‘It is only at the point of death,’ Pasolini had said in 1967, ‘that our life, to that point ambiguous, undecipherable, suspended – acquires a meaning.’’’
This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
In collaboration
November 4
19:00 Accattone
November 6
19:00 Love Meetings
Love and Anger: The Sequence of the Paper Flower
21:00 The Grim Reaper
November 7
14:00 Oedipus Rex
16:00 The Hawks and the Sparrows
November 8
14:00 Mamma Roma
November 11
19:00 Accattone
November 12
19:00 The Gospel According to St. Matthew
November 13
17:00 Prophecy: Pasolini's Africa
19:00 Notes Towards an African Orestes
21:00 Oedipus Rex
November 14
14:00 The Rage of Pasolini
16:00 The Gospel According to St. Matthew
November 15
14:00 The Grim Reaper
17:00 Notes Towards an African Orestes
November 18
19:00 The Hawks and the Sparrows
November 21
12:00 Love Meetings
Love and Anger: The Sequence of the Paper Flower
14:00 The Rage of Pasolini
16:00 Prophecy: Pasolini's Africa
November 22
14:00 Mamma Roma
November 4
19:00 Accattone
November 6
19:00 Love Meetings
Love and Anger: The Sequence of the Paper Flower
21:00 The Grim Reaper
November 7
14:00 Oedipus Rex
16:00 The Hawks and the Sparrows
November 8
14:00 Mamma Roma
November 11
19:00 Accattone
November 12
19:00 The Gospel According to St. Matthew
November 13
17:00 Prophecy: Pasolini's Africa
19:00 Notes Towards an African Orestes
21:00 Oedipus Rex
November 14
14:00 The Rage of Pasolini
16:00 The Gospel According to St. Matthew
November 15
14:00 The Grim Reaper
17:00 Notes Towards an African Orestes
November 18
19:00 The Hawks and the Sparrows
November 21
12:00 Love Meetings
Love and Anger: The Sequence of the Paper Flower
14:00 The Rage of Pasolini
16:00 Prophecy: Pasolini's Africa
November 22
14:00 Mamma Roma
Program Trailer
Pera Museum presents an exhibition of French artist Félix Ziem, one of the most original landscape painters of the 19th century. 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.
In his book exploring the cultural history of souvenirs, Rolf Potts discusses how such objects assume meaning through personal stories: Objects turn into memories with the stories they hold.
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
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)
