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Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography

  • Pera Museum 65 Meşrutiyet Caddesi İstanbul, 34430 Türkiye (map)

Pera Film, in collaboration with Altyazı Cinema Magazine and curated by Aslı Ildır, presents the film program Cinéma Vérité: The Truth of the Camera.

Cinéma Vérité, the same as Soviet filmmaker Dziga Vertov's term Kino Pravda, is a kind of "truth of cinema experiment" that first emerged with Jean Rouch and Edgar Morin's Chronicle of a Summer. This movement, in which the presence of the camera is felt and intervenes and changes what happens in the frame, and in which the director interacts with the participants and asks them questions, aims to question the reality that the camera constructs and represents, or the "truth of cinema". The selection includes both classic and later examples of the movement, with films from the US and France, as well as Mexico and Chile. 

Not a Love Story: A Film About Pornography is presented as part of the program. The documentary, which takes a critical look at the pornography industry, follows director Bonnie Sherr Klein and former stripper-turned-journalist Lindalee Tracy as they embark on a journey to explore this world with all its components. The film offers different perspectives on the effects and ethics of the pornography industry, including interviews with porn actors, sex workers and prominent feminists such as Margaret Atwood and Kate Millett.

Please note this film will be screened in English with Turkish subtitles.

More information on the event can be found here.

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