Perfect Days

  • February 10, 2024 / 16:00
  • February 21, 2024 / 19:00

Director: Wim Wenders
Participants: Kôji Yakusho, Tokio Emoto, Arisa Nakano, Aoi Yamada
Japan, Germany, 2023, 123', DCP, color
Japanese, English with Turkish subtitles 

The latest film by acclaimed director Wim Wenders, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, is a touching and poetic work about finding beauty in everyday life. Hirayama, who makes a living by cleaning toilets in Tokyo, has a passion for rock music, books, and tree photography, aside from his much-loved work routine. A series of unexpected encounters experienced by Hirayama gradually reveals more about his past.

Innocence of Memories

Innocence of Memories

Dark City

Dark City

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell

Sans Soleil

Sans Soleil

Perfect Days

Perfect Days

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. 

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. 

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.