Mexico, USA, Germany, 2010–2011, HDV, color, 41’
Spanish and English with Turkish subtitles
Mexican filmmaker Fernando Eimbcke and So Yong Kim, representative of the new American independent cinema, send each other eight impressions from their daily routines and family lives. A leaf dancing in a spider's web, sunsets by the sea, photos of Eimbcke's father accompanied by his mother telling the story of his illness, conversations about childhood, pictures of babies and snails and views out of a window in Berlin. A minimalistic, private film.
In his book exploring the cultural history of souvenirs, Rolf Potts discusses how such objects assume meaning through personal stories: Objects turn into memories with the stories they hold.
I remembered a game as I was waiting in the passenger lounge for the ferry to arrive just a few minutes ago. A game we used to play at home when I was young, in my country that is very far away from here, a relic from the distant past; I don’t even remember how we used to play it. The kind of game that makes me feel a thousand times lonelier than I already am among the crowd waiting to get on the ferry.
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.
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)
