Turbulent Times & Familiar Places
Tricky Women Short Animations

March 8 - 12, 2017

Pera Film is celebrating International Women’s Day! The short animation program Turbulent Times & Familiar Places presented in collaboration with Tricky Women Festival and Österreichisches Kulturforum Istanbul embraces women directors. Tricky Women is an international festival based in Vienna and the world‘s first and only festival dedicated exclusively to animated films made by women. The annual festival takes place every year around the International Women‘s Day.

Pera Museum’s Tricky Women selection combines current positions of Austrian femaleartists in animation film and gives an insight into the many techniques and work processes, with which the filmmakers shift the attention to relevant and unprecedented topics: the question where and why you feel at home (HomeStatements), what it is like to arrive in a new city where interpersonal relationships first have to be established (Shut up Moon) and mystical city observations in reference to discarded and newly picked up things (Taipei Recyclers). The greed with which both social and ecological consciousness is shifted from commonality to singularity (Princess Disaster Movie and YachaY). Biographical details (Garten & Schnaps), effects of boredom and opportunities (or lack of) on the periphery (Ginny) and how a woman takes life into her own hands (Two Melons - Birth of an Artist). The unpredictability and predictability of love around the globe and in the neighborhood (Follow You and Der verliebte Koch). The program further includes films that exploit reduced forms using excessive sound (Three Suns) and challenge the mechanisms of cinema and its perception (Machine).

This program’s screenings are free of admissions. 
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Screenings
8 March Wednesday 19:00
12 March Sunday 17:00

Lovestruck Cook (2013, 10’00, Verena Hochleitner, Ulrike Swoboda-Ostermann)
Follow You (2013, 3’50, Katharina Petsche)
Garten & Schnaps (2013, 12’00, Amelie Loy)
Ginny(2015, 5’00, Susi Jirkuf)
HomeStatements(2014, 7’32, Maria Weber)
Machine(2015, 2’00, Anna Vasof)
Princess Disaster Movie (2014, 3’24, Xenia Ostrovskaya),
Shut up Moon (2014, 4‘05) Gudrun Krebitz
Taipei Recyclers (2014, 7‘00) Nikki Schuster
Three Suns (2013, 7’49, LIA)
Two Melons - Birth of an Artist (2014, 2’00, Ingrid Gaier)
YachaY(2015, 6’45, Anne Zwiener) 

Take a look  at this program's film list!

Memory of the Region

Memory of the Region

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.

Artist Nicola Lorini in Conversation

Artist Nicola Lorini in Conversation

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.

The Rat Tribe Sim Chi Yin

The Rat Tribe Sim Chi Yin

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.