Punching my Timecard
A weekend with Christian Marclay’s ‘The Clock’ in May at SALT Istanbul
The Clock (2010), an exceptional video work by artist Christian Marclay, will be on view May 9 – 25 for 24 hours a day at SALT Beyoğlu.
Posts Tagged ‘movie’
I Posed as a Prostitute in a Turkish Brothel
Journalists go deep. Sometimes they go so deep into a story they lose track of where the story ends and their private life begins.
Roadmovie: Turkey’s Urban Transformation
A new movie called “AGORAPHOBIA – Investigating Turkey’s Urban Transformation. A Road Movie.” from the filmmakers of the great documentary “Ecumenopolis: City Without Limits” (2011) will be coming out soon (propably 2014).
Clashes with the Police
The Emek Sinemasi (cinema) was quoted as being the most elegant cinema in Istanbul and was one of the last remaining ‘movie palaces’ to survive in Turkey. It is said it was one of the most beautiful cinemas in Turkey… maybe even in all of Europe! It was located just off the Istiklal Caddesi in the busy Beyoglu district of downtown Istanbul.
In The Realm of Rare and Analogous Accidents
“Inspired by the larger than life cinema history of Texas, Los Americanos by the Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari explores the ephemeral through various cinema metaphors for identity, history and culture. Each artist has created his or her own independent project examining everyday life in Texas – past, present or future.
Revolution of Everyday Life by Marc Lafia
Two young women meet in an explosive and highly emotional love story where love, art and revolution ignite.
In this film 9 women record themselves being alone. At times they get together as an experimental arts collective hotly debating the value of their private work and whether to do public performances. Two of them fall in love. One becomes obsessed with the other and simultaneously imagines an idealized love while the other wants her to find the revolutionary part of herself. Revolution of Everyday Life is a document of actresses playing actresses who play characters that fall in love. It is at the same time a love story that happens in the realm of fiction and in the realm of recorded reality. The result is a documentary film within a fictional one. The film becomes a site not for representation but discovery. It is a structure for things to happen, it becomes the site for performing, not acting, not re-presenting desire, but to enact it – it is a longing for politic of desire and an expression of its urgency.