Timezones

February 6 - March 17, 2019

Maybe the only thing that hints at a sense of Time is rhythm; not the recurrent beats of the rhythm but the gap between two such beats, the gray gap between black beats: the Tender Interval.
Vladimir Nabokov

Part of exhibition The Time Needs Changing and its non-conventional perspective on the concept of time as a linear phenomenon, Pera Film presents the program Timezones from February 6 to March 17. The program is a collection of stories of individuals who await the right time to live their own reality, rebel against the truths of their time, wonder about the lives being led concurrently on the far side of the world, challenge the notion that a day is but 24 hours, and believe in the healing effect of time.

With a broad scope including cult films to documentaries and sci-fi classics to critically acclaimed recent productions, the program consists of Last Year at Marienbad, an exploration of the nature of memory by Alain Resnais, one of the pioneers of the French New Wave; Freak Orlando by Ulrike Ottinger, a reinterpretation of Virginia Woolf’s Orlando and Tod Browning’s Freaks remade into a boundary-busting theater of human difference and transformation; On the Silver Globe, Andrzej Zulawski’s banned and destroyed film that tells the tale of five astronauts who have left the Earth to found a new civilization, remade decades later using preserved footage and commentary to fill in narrative gaps; Night on Earth, one of Jim Jarmusch’s most charming and beloved films and a story of five taxi drivers and their passengers taking place simultaneously in five different cities and told through brief glimpses; Good Time, a crime film by the Safdie Brothers focusing on the lives of two brother in a cinematic experience brimming with realism and fervor; Out, the first documentary to address LGBTQ+ coming out stories exclusively through social media footage; and lastly, two films by The Time Needs Changing artist Cao Fei: i.Mirror, focusing on the blurry border between the virtual and the real, and Haze and Fog, an exploration of how the collective consciousness of people emerges from day-to-day life.

Screening tickets are 10 TL (reduced museum admission). Tickets will be available soon on Biletix.

 

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February 6

19:00 Last Year at Marienbad

February 8

19:00 Good Time

21:00 Night on Earth

February 9

15:00 Freak Orlando

February 10

15:00 Out

February 15

19:00 i.Mirror

Haze and Fog

February 21

19:00 On the Silver Globe

February 23

13:00 Out

March 6

19:00 Freak Orlando

March 9

15:00 i.Mirror

Haze and Fog

March 10

15:00 Last Year at Marienbad

March 13

19:00 On the Silver Globe

March 16

17:00 Good Time

March 17

17:00 Night on Earth

Last Year at Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad

Freak Orlando

Freak Orlando

On the Silver Globe

On the Silver Globe

Night on Earth

Night on Earth

Good Time

Good Time

Out

Out

i.Mirror

i.Mirror

Haze and Fog

Haze and Fog

Program Trailer

Timezones

The program is a collection of stories of individuals who await the right time to live their own reality, rebel against the truths of their time, wonder about the lives being led concurrently on the far side of the world, challenge the notion that a day is but 24 hours, and believe in the healing effect of time.

The Time Needs Changing

The Time Needs Changing exhibition questioned our geo-politically controlled notions of time. The three artists in this show gave alternatives to linear time, which is currently strictly enforced by the power structures under which we live.

The Time Needs Changing

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

From the Age of Reason to the “Tortoise Trainer”

A Salon exhibition held in the Grand Palais in Paris on May 1, 1906 showcased an Ottoman painting. This was Osman Hamdi Bey’s famous “Tortoise Trainer”. 

An Ottoman Ambassador and a French Bulldog at Covent Garden

An Ottoman Ambassador and a French Bulldog at Covent Garden

Celebrating its 10th anniversary this year, Pera Museum invites artist Benoît Hamet to reinterpret key pieces from its collections, casting a humourous eye over ‘historical’ events, both imagined and factual.

A Carriage and a Squat House  <br>Liliana Maresca

A Carriage and a Squat House
Liliana Maresca

Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017. Through the biennial, we will be sharing detailed information about the artists and the artworks.