Suddenly A Stranger Appears

September 20 - November 10, 2019

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

Nanook of the North

Nanook of the North

Planet of the Apes

Planet of the Apes

Princess Mononoke

Princess Mononoke

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

O Brother, Where Art Thou?

Frozen River

Frozen River

Beuys

Beuys

Sakawa

Sakawa

Yuva

Yuva

One Man Dies A Million Times

One Man Dies A Million Times

The Sounds of Science

The Sounds of Science

Program Trailer

Suddenly A Stranger Appears

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.

16th Istanbul Biennial

Pera Museum will host the 16th Istanbul Biennial, organized by Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV). The theme of the biennial, curated by French curator, author and academic Nicolas Bourriaud; is The Seventh Continent.

16th Istanbul Biennial

Moscow Conceptualists

Moscow Conceptualists

Our institutions have been stuck on linear Neo-Platonic tracks for 24 centuries. These antiquated processes of deduction have lost their authority. Just like art it has fallen off its pedestal. Legal, educational and constitutional systems rigidly subscribe to these; they are 100% text based.

The Success of an Artist

The Success of an Artist

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.

Serpent Head

Serpent Head

The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.