event
Saturday 30 January 2016 5.00 PM - 7.00 PM

Moving History. Stories of Turkish film from the Sixties to the presentFrom the Young Turks to the politically committed film of Yilmaz Güney

Curated by Italo Spinelli

MAXXI Auditorium
€5.00 single entrance ticket; €8.00 ticket for both events; €10,00 ticket for both events + museum entrance ticket through to Sunday 7 February; admittance free for myMAXXI card holders

Two events exploring the social, political and cultural history of contemporary Turkey

A story enriched by celebrated sequences or previously unseen clips from Turkish films, shorts and documentaries through a chronology of images testifying to the cultural wealth of a country in continuous transformation.

Screenings of extracts from films and documentaries including:
Gelin Anatolian Trilogy (1973 – 1975), by Ömer Lütfi Akad
Susuz Yaz(1963) by Metin Erksan
Vesikalı Yarim (1968) by Ömer Lütfi Akad
Seyyit Han (1968), Aç Kurtlar (1969) and Umut (1970) by Yilmaz Güney 

*Digital video editor Silvia Di Domenico