İstanbul Modern Cinema will be presenting a program called “Site Films” from October 1st to October 11th. This program, which is part of Sarkis’s “Site” exhibition and which will be running concurrently with it, consists of movies that the artist has selected as being allied with his work:
CHRONICLE OF ANNA MAGDALENA BACH
(CHRONIK DER ANNA MAGDALENA BACH), 1968
Germany | 35mm, Black-White, 94’ | German
Directors: Jean Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Cast: Gustav Leonhardt, Christiane Lang, Paolo Carlini, Ernst Castelli
ICE, 1970
USA | 35mm, Black-White, 130’ | English
Director: Robert Kramer
Cast: Leo Braudy, Tom Griffin, Robert Kramer, Paul Melsaac
DESTINY (KADER), 2006
Turkey | 35mm, Color, 135’| Turkish
Director: Zeki Demirkubuz
Cast: Ufuk Bayraktar, Vildan Atasever, Engin Akyürek, Müge Ulusoy, Ozan Bilen
MOSES AND AARON (MOSES AND ARON), 1975
Germany | 35mm, Color, 107’ | German
Directors: Jean Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet
Cast: Günter Reich, Louis Devos, Eva Csapo, Roger Lucas
THE COLOR OF POMEGRANATE (SAYAT NOVA), 1968
Soviet Union | 35mm, Color, 79’ | Armenian
Director: Sergei Paradjanov
Cast: Sofiko Chiaureli, Melkon Aleksanyan, Vilen Galstyan
8½, 1963
Italy, France | 35mm, Black-White, 138’ | Italian
Director: Federico Fellini
Cast: Bruno Agostini, Sandra Milo
STALKER, 1979
Soviet Union | 35mm, Color, 163’ | Russian
Director: Andrei Tarkovski
Cast: Aleksandr Kajdanovski, Alisa Frejndlikh, Anatoli Solonitsyn
PROMISED LAND (HA'ARETZ HAMUVTAKHAT), 2004
İsrael, France | 35mm, Color, 88’ | English, Arabic, Hebrew
Director: Amos Gitai
Cast: Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni, Hanna Schygulla, Anne Parillaud