Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

  • April 8, 2018 / 13:30
  • April 12, 2018 / 16:00

Director: Frederick Wiseman
USA, 2017, 197’, color, English with Turkish subtitles
 

In his much lauded Ex Libris: New York Public, which premiered at Venice, the legendary documentarian Frederick Wiseman, who devoted his career to making documentaries that shine a light on how institutions work, takes a closer look at one of the largest public libraries in the world. Wiseman, who carved out a niche for himself with his idiosyncratic view, once again creates a sense of “witnessing” with his trademark non-interventionist style. Ex Libris: New York Public Library is a very special documentary about cultural history and reality that are under treat nowadays.

Category: Challenging the Years

Endless Journey

Endless Journey

Miracle Worker 104 Years Old

Miracle Worker 104 Years Old

The Legend of Yaşar Kemal

The Legend of Yaşar Kemal

The Last of England

The Last of England

The Well

The Well

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars

Eric Clapton: Life In 12 Bars

The San San Trilogy

The San San Trilogy

Figures In A Landscape

Figures In A Landscape

Love And Bullets

Love And Bullets

Mrs. Fang

Mrs. Fang

Trailer

Ex Libris: The New York Public Library

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

Marcel Duchamp’s Bicycle Wheel

In 1998 Ben Jakober and Yannick Vu collaborated on an obvious remake of Marcel Duchamp’s Roue de Bicyclette, his first “readymade” object. Duchamp combined a bicycle wheel, a fork and a stool to create a machine which served no purpose, subverting accepted norms of art. 

Good News from the Skies

Good News from the Skies

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. 

Turquerie

Turquerie

Having penetrated the Balkans in the fourteenth century, conquered Constantinople in the fifteenth, and reached the gates of Vienna in the sixteenth, the Ottoman Empire long struck fear into European hearts.