Director: Omar İsmail
Turkey, 2020, 30’
Arabic with Turkish and English subtitles
The film shows the life of an Egyptian family at their home, after the curfew was imposed in Turkey due to the Coronavirus. The family moved to Turkey more than 6 years ago, after they had to leave their country due to the political events that occurred in July 2013. While filming daily events a Turkish National Day celebration brings up a discussion between family members about what is the meaning of homeland for each of them? This question reveals a disturbance in the concept of identity. Does belonging to a geographical area occur due to language, religion, or a place of birth? Or is it the passport and papers that identify its holder! And what if a person loses all of this, could he create an alternative homeland? The answers of the family members show the state of nostalgia and confusion experienced by many people who had to leave their countries.
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.
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.
Pera Museum’s Cold Front from the Balkans exhibition curated by Ali Akay and Alenka Gregorič brings together contemporary artists from Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia and Slovenia.
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)
