Browsing: Memory

The Palais Garnier sculptures evoke the mythic bond between Orpheus and Eurydice through figures identified by their names in Greek.

Collector Mithat Bey and apartment caretaker Ali form an unexpected alliance as urban transformation threatens an old building and the collection contained within it.

A prosecutor, doctor, police commissioner, gendarmes, and suspects search the Anatolian steppe throughout the night for a body, while procedure gradually becomes an inquiry into truth, memory, and witnessing.

Semih Kaplanoğlu’s trilogy follows Yusuf backwards from adulthood to childhood, connecting memory, space, family, language, nature, and belonging through silence and duration.

A woman and a young man travel through cities, hotels, photographs, and memories in search of a face whose meaning continually withdraws.

A family drama centred on four sisters whose return to the sea transforms the coastal town into a space of memory, confrontation, and renewed togetherness.

A road journey through earthquake-stricken Koker, where ruined homes, temporary shelters, and everyday encounters reveal the fragile continuation of life.

A film image reflecting the female-centred world of Volver, where domestic labour, maternal resilience, memory, and the return of the repressed past intersect.

An art-historical reading of Leblebici’s untitled painting as a symbolic house-body where female form, darkness, pomegranate, erasure, memory, and interior space converge.

An oil painting by Philippe de Champaigne portraying Saint Augustine with a quill and a flaming heart. Augustine directs his gaze towards a ray of divine light bearing the Latin word Veritas, or “truth.” The quill refers to his philosophical and theological writings, while the burning heart symbolises inward love, spiritual desire, and caritas as the movement of created existence towards God.