Short Film Selection – 2

  • May 28, 2025 / 19:00
  • June 13, 2025 / 19:00

Magritte ou La leçon de choses
Director: Luc de Heusch
Belgium, 1960, 15', DCP, color
French with Turkish subtitles

Luc de Heusch, a passionate literary and cinema figure and a member of the COBRA movement, captured his friends and artists on film.

More than just a portrait, this short offers a portal into René Magritte’s dreamlike world, which not only appears in the film but seems to engulf it—turning the entire work into a surrealist object itself.

Screened with the support of the Henri Storck Foundation.

Magritte’s Home Movies
Directors: René & Georgette Magritte
Belgium, 1957-1967, 12', DCP, b&w
Silent

In 1956, René Magritte acquired a camera and filmed 40 shorts featuring himself, his wife, and friends. These charming and emotional films breathe life into his iconic visual world.

This program features René (1957) and Parc Josaphat (1967).

Harpya
Director: Raoul Servais
Cast: Will Spoor, Fran Waller Zeper, Sjoert Schwibethus
Belgium, 1979, 9', DCP, color
Non-verbal

Raoul Servais’ cinema is marked by constant innovation in form and technique. Harpya, blending animation with live-action, tells a fantastical tale.

It follows a man who rescues a harpy (a half-woman, half-bird creature), only to face danger as she becomes increasingly menacing.

Winner of the Palme d’Or for Best Short Film at Cannes in 1979, the film was restored by the Royal Film Archive of Belgium (CINEMATEK).

Screened with the support of Raoul Servais Collection.

Dimanche
Director: Edmond Bernhard
Belgium, 1963, 19', DCP, b&w
Non-verbal 

A typical Sunday in Brussels: the guard changes, children play, people visit Cinéma Aventure.

Completely devoid of commentary, this short elevates the ordinary with extraordinary visuals, placing boredom at its core.

The film was restored by the Royal Film Archive of Belgium (CINEMATEK).

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short

The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short

The Great Barrier Reef

The Great Barrier Reef

Toute une nuit

Toute une nuit

Short Film Selection – 1

Short Film Selection – 1

Short Film Selection – 2

Short Film Selection – 2

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.