“The art of cinema is the most important of all arts for us today!”
Lenin
Pera Film is saluting the Bolshevik Revolution Centenary with a special program titled Red Revolution: Soviet Gems. The program brings together seven black and white, classic films from the cinema of the Soviet Union. The Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the 20th century. The revolution marked the end of the Romanov dynasty and centuries of Russian Imperial rule. During the revolution, the Bolsheviks, led by leftist revolutionary Vladimir Lenin, seized power and destroyed the tradition of Czarist rule. The Bolsheviks would later become the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On November 6 and 7, 1917 (or October 24 and 25 on the Julian calendar, which is why the event is often referred to as the October Revolution), leftist revolutionaries led by Bolshevik Party leader Vladimir Lenin launched a coup d’état against the Duma’s provisional government. The provisional government had been assembled by a group of leaders from Russia’s bourgeois capitalist class. Lenin instead called for a Soviet government that would be ruled directly by councils of soldiers, peasants and workers. Lenin now proclaimed a new government of Russia, by the Soviets. The Congress of Soviets met and endorsed the action of the Bolsheviks. The Bolshevik Revolution was now a fact.
Red Revolution: Soviet Gems celebrates the work of Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Dziga Vertov, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Mikhail Kalatozov, Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandr Medvedkin and Yakov Protazanov. From early dramas, comedies and melodramas to the emergence of the avant-garde in the 1920s, and 1930s, this program explores encaptivating cinematic treasures!
This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations.
in collaboration
November 7
19:00 Man with a Movie Camera
November 8
19:00 Alone
November 10
17:00 Earth
November 11
16:00 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
18:00 Happiness
November 19
13:00 Salt for Svanetia
November 21
19:00 The Tailor From Torzhok
November 22
17:00 Happiness
November 24
17:00 Alone
19:00 Man with a Movie Camera
November 28
15:00 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
16:00 Salt for Svanetia
November 29
17:00 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
19:00 Salt for Svanetia
November 30
17:00 The Tailor From Torzhok
19:00 Earth
November 7
19:00 Man with a Movie Camera
November 8
19:00 Alone
November 10
17:00 Earth
November 11
16:00 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
18:00 Happiness
November 19
13:00 Salt for Svanetia
November 21
19:00 The Tailor From Torzhok
November 22
17:00 Happiness
November 24
17:00 Alone
19:00 Man with a Movie Camera
November 28
15:00 The Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks
16:00 Salt for Svanetia
November 30
17:00 The Tailor From Torzhok
19:00 Earth
Program Trailer
Program celebrates the work of Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg, Dziga Vertov, Aleksandr Dovzhenko, Mikhail Kalatozov, Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandr Medvedkin and Yakov Protazanov. From early dramas, comedies and melodramas to the emergence of the avant-garde in the 1920s, and 1930s, this program explores encaptivating cinematic treasures!
Martín Zapater y Clavería, born in Zaragoza on November 12th 1747, came from a family of modest merchants and was taken in to live with a well-to-do aunt, Juana Faguás, and her daughter, Joaquina de Alduy. He studied with Goya in the Escuelas Pías school in Zaragoza from 1752 to 1757 and a friendship arose between them which was to last until the death of Zapater in 1803.
Nam June Paik was video art’s pioneer (1932 –2006). It is interesting that while Warhol and Nameth were experimenting with psychedelic happenings that combined rock, film and performance, the video art pioneers Nam June Paik, Stephen Beck, Eric Siegel and Steina Vasulka were researching in a similar direction.
Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day.
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)
