History Lessons

  • April 26, 2018 / 19:00
  • May 25, 2018 / 21:30

Director: Barbara Hammer
Cast: Ann Maguire, Jane Fine, Cocoa Fusco, David Del Tredici
USA, 2000, 66', b&w, color, English with Turkish subtitles
 
In this wonderfully irreverent yet empowering film, Barbara Hammer traces lesbian history by presenting an extraordinary array of archival footage – and then playfully manipulates it to make it seem as though lesbians were everywhere. From popular films to newsreels, sex ed pics, stag reels, medical and educational films, old nudies and more, History Lessons reclaims and rewrites lesbian history.
 
Free admissions. Drop in, no reservations.

Evidentiary Bodies

Evidentiary Bodies

Welcome To This House

Welcome To This House

Maya Deren’s Sink

Maya Deren’s Sink

Generations

Generations

Lover/Other

Lover/Other

Resisting Paradise

Resisting Paradise

History Lessons

History Lessons

Tender Fictions

Tender Fictions

Nitrate Kisses

Nitrate Kisses

Dyketactics

Dyketactics

Trailer

History Lessons

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

Explore the Museum with the Little Yellow Circle!

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.

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

Il Cavallo di Leonardo

In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier. 

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

The Ottoman Way of Serving Coffee

Coffee was served with much splendor at the harems of the Ottoman palace and mansions. First, sweets (usually jam) was served on silverware, followed by coffee serving. The coffee jug would be placed in a sitil (brazier), which had three chains on its sides for carrying, had cinders in the middle, and was made of tombac, silver or brass. The sitil had a satin or silk cover embroidered with silver thread, tinsel, sequin or even pearls and diamonds.