This 16mm program features four films engaged variously with ideas of "text-as-image." Whereas Chaplin and Murnau once rejected silent era intertitling practices as "unfilmic," these filmmakers explore how text on screen could be just the opposite. Proposing self-consciously literal responses to longstanding scholarly questions about "film language," these conceptual works are as playful and comedic as they are formally rigorous.

Istanbul Modern Cinema, in collaboration with the Consulate General of Canada and Othon Cinema, presents an extensive retrospective of experimental cinema pioneer Michael Snow (1928–2023) in 16mm, featuring ten of his most important films