{"id":69066,"date":"2013-04-03T15:57:07","date_gmt":"2013-04-03T12:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/?p=69066"},"modified":"2014-01-08T02:24:59","modified_gmt":"2014-01-08T00:24:59","slug":"cinematic-head-start-on-istanbul-art-biennial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/2013\/04\/03\/cinematic-head-start-on-istanbul-art-biennial\/","title":{"rendered":"Cinematic Head Start on Istanbul Art Biennial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-69067\" alt=\"iht-rdv-istanbul-040213-tmagArticle\" src=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iht-rdv-istanbul-040213-tmagArticle.jpg\" width=\"592\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iht-rdv-istanbul-040213-tmagArticle.jpg 592w, https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/iht-rdv-istanbul-040213-tmagArticle-300x202.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 592px) 100vw, 592px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A scene from \u201cAh, G\u00fczel Istanbul\u201d (\u201cOh, Beautiful Istanbul\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>ISTANBUL \u2014 The 13th Istanbul Biennial \u2014 whose title theme is \u2018\u2018Mom, am I Barbarian?\u2019\u2019 \u2014 doesn\u2019t officially open until Sept. 14. But you can get a leap on the curator Fulya Erdemci\u2019s views on the public versus private spheres, civility versus violence, and utopian societies by going to the movies this week.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Erdemci and her crew building the citywide contemporary art event have carved out a niche within the 32nd Istanbul Film Festival. Their subset of 17 curated films will play from April 6-11 in a festival category called \u2018\u2018Am I Not a Citizen? Barbarism, Civic Awakening, and the City.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s that mean on the screen?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it\u2019s a chance to see classics like Luis Bu\u00f1uel\u2019s \u2018\u2018The Exterminating Angel,\u2019\u2019 his 1962 take on how people behave in microsocieties. Another nostalgic choice is \u2018\u2018Oh, Beautiful Istanbul,\u2019\u2019 a 1966 film by Atif Yilmaz about an aspiring actress who sets out from her village to seek fame and fortune in the big (bad?) city.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s also an opportunity to see how international directors are documenting urban transformations in cities like Barcelona (\u2018\u2018Work in Progress\u2019\u2019 by Jos\u00e9 Luis Guer\u00edn) and Tirana, Albania (\u2018\u2018Dammi i Colori\u2019\u2019 by Anri Sala.) America is not spared: The Dutch director Bregtje van der Haak takes a hard look at people hit by the U.S. economic crisis in \u2018\u2018California Dreaming.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A discussion of urbanization and capitalism and their effect on daily lives is particularly apt these days in Istanbul, a city undergoing rapid and intense changes as high-rise offices and residential towers increasingly compete for space against with the city\u2019s historic skyline. Here, shiny shopping malls are replacing lovely older structures and even classic movie theaters like the beloved Emek, which long hosted the film festival and where protesters gathered this week to oppose its planned demolition.<\/p>\n<p>via Cinematic Head Start on Istanbul Art Biennial &#8211; NYTimes.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A scene from \u201cAh, G\u00fczel Istanbul\u201d (\u201cOh, Beautiful Istanbul\u201d). ISTANBUL \u2014 The 13th Istanbul Biennial \u2014 whose title theme is \u2018\u2018Mom, am I Barbarian?\u2019\u2019 \u2014 doesn\u2019t officially open until Sept. 14. But you can get a leap on the curator Fulya Erdemci\u2019s views on the public versus private spheres, civility versus violence, and utopian societies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":69067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2939],"tags":[8977,8557],"class_list":["post-69066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultureart","tag-istanbul-art-biennial","tag-movie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}