“The minute we left, we started going home, and we are still going home. I am still on my journey home.”
Jonas Mekas
Pera Film starts 2020 with road stories. Running alongside A Road Story exhibition, Pera’s program features six films that focus on the state of setting out on a journey and how feelings transform on the road.
Scheduled on 5 February – 1 March 2020, Reminiscences of a Journey program presents: one of the most impressive road story movies, Badlands -Terrence Malick’sfirst feature-length based on the true story of serial killer Charles Starkweather; Tickets: Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami and Ken Loach’s collaborative work that tells three intersecting stories on a journey from Eastern Europe to Rome; I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You: sent to a semi-arid isolated region in the northeast of Brazil for a survey, geologist José Renato feels and profoundly reflects on the screen the most striking forms of the emptiness, a sense of abandonment and isolation; Big Easy Express: documentary capturing a musical journey of three bands, six cities, a train and thousands of miles on the tracks; and last but not least American Honey: the story of 18 year old Star, who suddenly decides to leave behind her troubled life of domestic violence and poverty to join a traveling sales crew selling subscriptions door to door.
February 5
19:00 Badlands
February 9
15:00 Big Easy Express
February 14
19:30 American Honey
February 16
15:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 19
19:00 Badlands
February 26
19:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 28
19:30 American Honey
February 29
15:00 Big Easy Express
February 5
19:00 Badlands
February 9
15:00 Big Easy Express
February 14
19:30 American Honey
February 16
15:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 19
19:00 Badlands
February 26
19:00 I Travel Because I Have to, I Come Back Because I Love You
February 28
19:30 American Honey
February 29
15:00 Big Easy Express
Program Trailer
It was a quiet night in the dessert. Even the mice weren’t around. A few LEDs blinked in the dark, and the sound of a fan filled the infinite void. The conversation cutting the silence seemed to go nowhere.
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 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.
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)
