Othon Cinema is excited about its first screening, "The Dream of the Avant-Garde". With the participation of avant-garde filmmakers Peter Tscherkassky and Eve Heller, the event will take place in Istanbul at the Pera Museum on September 20, 21, and 22!

Peter Tscherkassky, one of Austria's foremost experimental filmmakers, has gained international recognition with awards from the Cannes Film Festival and the Venice Film Festival. Eve Heller, part of the second generation of American avant-garde cinema, has exhibited her work in the "found footage" genre worldwide. Both filmmakers create works infused with a mysterious lyricism and a probing curiosity about dreams, memories, and our relationship with time. Their primary aim is to embark on a journey into the poetics of cinema, crafting a life interwoven with the encounters along this path.

For the first time in Turkey, all the films by these two directors will be screened as part of this retrospective. After the screenings, Tscherkassky and Heller will meet with the Istanbulites in the post-screening discussions, marking their first interaction with the audience. 

This program’s screenings are free admission. Drop in, no reservations. As per legal regulations, all our screenings are restricted to persons over 18 years of age, unless stated otherwise.

September 20th, 19h
Breaking the Image

• Get Ready (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
• L'Arrivée (Peter Tscherkassky, 1997)
• Outer Space (Peter Tscherkassky, 1999)
• Dream Work (Peter Tscherkassky, 2001)
• Instructions for a Light and Sound Machine (Peter Tscherkassky, 2005)
• Train Again (Peter Tscherkassky, 2021)

September 21st, 17h
Poetic Manipulations

• Astor Place (Eve Heller, 1997)
• Self-Examination Remote Control (Eve Heller, 1981)
• Ruby Skin (Eve Heller, 2005)
• Last Lost (Eve Heller, 1996)
• Creme 21 (Eve Heller, 2013)
• Her Glacial Speed (Eve Heller, 2001)
• Behind This Soft Eclipse (Eve Heller, 2004)
• Singing in Oblivion (Eve Heller, 2021)

September 22nd, 15h
The Cinematic Layers

• Manufraktur (Peter Tscherkassky, 1985)
• Parallel-Space: Inter-View (Peter Tscherkassky, 1992)
• Happy-End (Peter Tscherkassky, 1996)
• Coming Attractions (Peter Tscherkassky, 2010)
• The Exquisite Corpus (Peter Tscherkassky, 2015)

Othon Cinema is a web platform based in Istanbul that voluntarily offers collective productions related to cinema. We have a multifaceted production network that includes writing, translation, film screenings, and interviews. After our interviews with directors like Pedro Costa, Wang Bing, and Peter Tscherkaszy, we are excited to announce our first retrospective in Istanbul featuring Peter Tscherkaszy and Eve Heller. This event will be free of charge. Such events are quite rare in our country, and we believe it is valuable to introduce the directors' cinema and of course experimental cinema to our audience for the first time.

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