Pera Museum is hosting the 16th Istanbul Biennial between September 14 - November 10, 2019. As part of the Suddenly A Stranger Appears program inspired by the Biennial’s The Seventh Continent theme, Pera Film brings cinematic masterpieces that combine the memory of nature and society and encourage us to question our level of alienation to the world in which we live and the extent of our contribution to this alienation.
The program which includes screenings between September 20 - November 10, features seventeen films focusing on global transformation, the ages-long phenomenon of transformation experienced by civilizations and humanity’s cosmic footprint including; Nanook of the North, which depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region and is regarded as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history, The Sounds of Science, a selection of short films by French filmmaker and scientist Jean Painlevé which has a special place in surrealist cinema, Sakawa, a documentary film that lays bare the entire Ghanaian scamming industry targeting the online dating sites, through the eyes of the perpetrators, Planet of the Apes, which is about a group of astronauts crash-landing on another planet where a completely different species thrives.
This program’s screenings are free of admissions. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.
September 20
19:00 The Sounds of Science
21:00 Beuys
September 21
15:00 Princess Mononoke
September 22
15:00 Planet of the Apes
September 25
19:00 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
September 28
15:00 Frozen River
October 2
19:00 One Man Dies A Million Times
October 4
19:00 Sakawa
October 6
13:00 The Sounds of Science
October 9
19:00 Princess Mononoke
October 11
19:00 Nanook of the North
October 12
15:00 Beuys
October 13
13:00 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
October 16
19:00 Frozen River
October 18
19:00 Yuva
October 23
19:00 One Man Dies A Million Times
October 30
19:00 Planet of the Apes
November 3
15:00 Sakawa
November 6
19:00 Yuva
November 10
18:00 Nanook of the North
September 20
19:00 The Sounds of Science
21:00 Beuys
September 21
15:00 Princess Mononoke
September 22
15:00 Planet of the Apes
September 25
19:00 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
September 28
15:00 Frozen River
October 2
19:00 One Man Dies A Million Times
October 4
19:00 Sakawa
October 6
13:00 The Sounds of Science
October 9
19:00 Princess Mononoke
October 11
19:00 Nanook of the North
October 12
15:00 Beuys
October 13
13:00 O Brother, Where Art Thou?
October 16
19:00 Frozen River
October 18
19:00 Yuva
October 23
19:00 One Man Dies A Million Times
October 30
19:00 Planet of the Apes
November 3
15:00 Sakawa
November 6
19:00 Yuva
November 10
18:00 Nanook of the North
Program Trailer
Inspired by the Biennial’s The Seventh Continent theme, Pera Film brings cinematic masterpieces that combine the memory of nature and society and encourage us to question our level of alienation to the world in which we live and the extent of our contribution to this alienation.
Inspired by its Anatolian Weights and Measures Collection, Pera Museum presents a contemporary video installation titled For All the Time, for All the Sad Stones at the gallery that hosts the Collection. The installation by the artist Nicola Lorini takes its starting point from recent events, in particular the calculation of the hypothetical mass of the Internet and the weight lost by the model of the kilogram and its consequent redefinition, and traces a non-linear voyage through the Collection.
Objects also bear the memory of the geography to which they relate. Ceramics, with soil as their primary material, are directly linked to the land where they are produced: forging a direct relationship with earth, ceramics bear the memory of the soil where they come from.
French artist Félix Ziem is one of the most original landscape painters of the 19thcentury. 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.
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: 200 TL
Discounted: 100 TL
Groups: 150 TL (minimum 10 people)
