Our Defeats

Director: Jean-Gabriel Périot
France, 2018, 96’, color, b&w
French with Turkish, English subtitle

In his latest film, French director Jean-Gabriel Périot, celebrated for his short video works which occupy a special place between documentary, animation and experimental, sets off to find an answer to the question, “where do we stand vis-à-vis politics in France today, in 2018?” and questions our contemporary political condition by involving ten French high school students in a unique cinematic “filmplay”. The selected students restage scenes from films from 1968 and Our Defeats intersperses the results with short interviews with students. The film asks the question, “Do we keep enough forces to confront ourselves with the chaos of today?” while building a topical, poetic, critical, and political narrative that maintains its “film about a film” structure.

Chris the Swiss

Chris the Swiss

Dreamaway

Dreamaway

The Man Who Stole Banksy

The Man Who Stole Banksy

Monrovia, Indiana

Monrovia, Indiana

Young and Alive

Young and Alive

Circus Rwanda

Circus Rwanda

Meeting Gorbachev

Meeting Gorbachev

Don’t Work (1968 – 2018)

Don’t Work (1968 – 2018)

Putin’s Witnesses

Putin’s Witnesses

The Silence of Others

The Silence of Others

Our Defeats

Our Defeats

Finding Farideh

Finding Farideh

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. 

Symbols

Symbols

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.

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.