Director: Payal Kapadia
France, India, 2021, 96', DCP, color
Hindi, Bengali with Turkish, English subtitles
L, a university student in India, writes letters to her estranged lover, while he is away. Through these letters, we get a glimpse into the drastic changes taking place around her. Merging reality with fiction, dreams, memories, fantasies and anxieties, an amorphous narrative unfolds. By turns gritty and lyrical, Payal Kapadia’s A Night of Knowing Nothing (2021) is a penetrating look at the politics of education—of film education specifically—as India’s once thriving liberal public sphere yields to sectarian division and chauvinism. On a background of state-sanctioned violence and intimidation, what stands out is Kapadia’s quiet insistence on the necessity of private reflection. Resistance demands fiction, somehow, even as the failure of news media and other democratic institutions leaves no ground for a non-partisan artistic stance.
Published as part of Pera Learning programs, “The Little Yellow Circle (Küçük Sarı Daire)” is a children’s book written by Tania Bahar and illustrated by Marina Rico, offering children and adults to a novel learning experience where they can share and discover together.
Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day.
As the New Year approaches, Pera Film presents an alternative watchlist of 10 movies, ranging from Hollywood's timeless classics to memorable examples of modern cinema.
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: 300 TL
Discounted: 150 TL
Groups: 200 TL (minimum 10 people)
