Director: Wes Hurley
Cast: Jonathan Bennett, Lea Delaria, Lauren Tewes
USA, 2022, HD, color, 97’
Russian-US director Wes Hurley's autobiographical comedy Potato Dreams of America deals with the adventure of a teenage queer living in Soviet Russia who dreams of America and starts a new life in the United States with his mother. The first half of the film, set in Vladivostok, one of the port cities of Russia neighboring Japan, portraits the daily life of Potato who is still a child in the Soviet Union during the Gorbachev era, his attempts to get to know himself, and his social ties through an absurd American sitcom aesthetic. In the second part of the film, we watch the new life of Potato and his mother, who could not see a future for themselves in the Soviet Union, in Seattle, where they moved after hardships, through a melodramatic and more autobiographical narrative. Bringing the dualities of the 20th century into our eyes, Wes Hurley tells his own life story by using dark humor successfully.
Our Doublethink Double vision exhibition’s title alludes to George Orwell’s seminal work 1984 and presents a selection that includes Tracey Emin, Marcel Dzama, Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Raymond Pettibon, and Thomas Ruff, as well as Turkish artists, tracing the steps of pluralistic thought through works of art.
Pera Museum, in collaboration with Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV), is one of the main venues for this year’s 15th Istanbul Biennial from 16 September to 12 November 2017.
Beliefs surrounding illness and healing in Byzantium stem from the myths, astrology, and magic practiced around the Mediterranean by Jews, Egyptians, Mesopotamians, and Greeks.
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)
