Director: Chantal Akerman
Cast: Chantal Akerman
Belgium, France, 1976, 90', DCP, color
French with Turkish subtitles
A time capsule holding the memory of Chantal Akerman's New York. Her 16mm footage, long takes, and elegantly composed shots roaming the city set to the filmmaker's voice-over as she reads letters from her mother. The text paints an intimate picture of family life, with its catalogue of minor illnesses, domestic routines, betrothals and financial anxieties.
The elegiac emotionalism of the writings counterpoints the flat monotone of Akerman's recitation and the images of Manhattan as an alien, urban ghost town, its streets preternaturally empty.
Born in 1950 in Brussels to a family of Polish immigrants, Chantal Akerman carried the influence of her roots throughout her life. Her films often focused on family history, with a meticulous approach to perception and sexuality, reflected in her use of static cameras, long takes, and silent frames. With a filmography of nearly 50 works, she gained widespread recognition with her iconic 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, securing a significant place in avant-garde and feminist cinema.
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.
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.
Selected from the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation Photography Collection, we present the landscapes and places in Istanbul photographs, dating from the 1850s to the 1980s, together with their present-day views!
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)
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