Pera Film's first program of the new year, the Beaten Track, begins its screenings on January 31st!
Within the scope of the exhibition Istanbuls Today, which opened at Pera Museum in December, the program includes nine film examples from experimental, documentary and fiction genres. The word “uğrak” (the beaten track), which is thought to originate from the Turkish-Mongolian language family, means to stop by and go. The word uğrak, transformed over the years to mean to make a temporary stop and to go frequently, allows us to show the films that transform Istanbul into a place of a haunt.
Until February 26, the program includes Alain Robbe-Grillet's directorial debut The Immortal, in which the static hotel setting of Marienbad is replaced by a magical, surrealistically static Istanbul; Merlyn Solakhan's The City and Tongue Twister, which have rarely been seen in Turkey and which construct Istanbul sometimes as a set, sometimes as a setting, but mostly as the main character of the story; Zombie and the Ghost Train, a tragicomedy directed by Mika Kaurismäki about Zombie, a young musician trying to find a place for himself in a band and in the world; and Maurice Pialat's Turkish Chronicles, a series of five lyrical short films by Maurice Pialat, who traveled to Turkey in 1964 and dedicated himself to the history and people of the country.
Tickets will be available at Biletix and the museum. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.
January 15
19:00 Zombie and The Ghost Train
January 31
The City
February 3
20:00 The Immortal
February 8
19:00 Tongue Twister
February 10
The Immortal
February 15
Zombie and The Ghost Train
February 17
19:30 Turkish Chronicles
21:00 Tongue Twister
February 22
19:00 The City
February 24
Zombie and The Ghost Train
February 26
15:00 Turkish Chronicles
18:30 Turkish Chronicles
January 31
19:00 The City
February 3
20:00 The Immortal
February 8
19:00 Tongue Twister
February 10
19:00 The Immortal
February 15
19:00 Zombie and The Ghost Train
February 17
19:30 Turkish Chronicles
21:00 Tongue Twister
February 22
19:00 The City
February 24
19:00 Zombie and The Ghost Train
February 26
18:30 Turkish Chronicles
Louis Isadore Kahn was born in 1901 to a Jewish family in Pärnu, Russia (today Estonia), far from Philadelphia where he spent his whole life, worked, fell in love, and breathed his last. Kahn family emigrated to America when he was five years old.
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In the works of western painters, we encounter mosques as the primary architectural elements that reflect the identity of the city of Istanbul. Often we can recognize the depicted landscape as Istanbul simply from the mosques.
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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: 80 TL
Discounted: 40 TL
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