Thursday Cinema
ZONA [The Zone]
Salt Beyoğlu
October 31, 2019 19.00
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Still from ZONA [The Zone] (2019) ©SomeSuch
Walk-in Cinema
ZONA [The Zone] (2019)
Director: Clayton Vomero
66 minutes
Russian; Turkish and English subtitles
Zona (“3OHA”) means prison to most people in Russia. In the literary sense, it is a concept from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1971 sci-fi novel Piknik na obochine [Roadside Picnic]. Italian-American artist and filmmaker Clayton Vomero takes this term as the thin vapor of consumer culture allowing people to live in a fantasy world and eventually become a full “simulacra” as they simulate different versions of themselves until the original no longer exists.
Filmed in Russia and Ukraine, the documentary film ZONA [The Zone] (2019) has two parts spanning from the early 1990s to today. The first part focuses on some of the important cultural figures who embraced the Western culture in these countries while the latter explores younger generations in terms of representation, consumerism, and identity through a group of dissident and outsider young people living in the cities of Moscow, Vladimir, St. Petersburg, and Kiev.
Thursday Cinema is supported by Garanti BBVA Mortgage. Program is free. Reservations are not accepted.
In accordance with Article 7 of Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019,
films that have not been assessed and classified by the General Directorate of Cinema, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Republic of Turkey, can only be screened under the classification of 18+ at festivals, special screenings or similar culture and arts events.
ZONA [The Zone] (2019)
Director: Clayton Vomero
66 minutes
Russian; Turkish and English subtitles
Zona (“3OHA”) means prison to most people in Russia. In the literary sense, it is a concept from Arkady and Boris Strugatsky’s 1971 sci-fi novel Piknik na obochine [Roadside Picnic]. Italian-American artist and filmmaker Clayton Vomero takes this term as the thin vapor of consumer culture allowing people to live in a fantasy world and eventually become a full “simulacra” as they simulate different versions of themselves until the original no longer exists.
Filmed in Russia and Ukraine, the documentary film ZONA [The Zone] (2019) has two parts spanning from the early 1990s to today. The first part focuses on some of the important cultural figures who embraced the Western culture in these countries while the latter explores younger generations in terms of representation, consumerism, and identity through a group of dissident and outsider young people living in the cities of Moscow, Vladimir, St. Petersburg, and Kiev.
Thursday Cinema is supported by Garanti BBVA Mortgage. Program is free. Reservations are not accepted.
films that have not been assessed and classified by the General Directorate of Cinema, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Republic of Turkey, can only be screened under the classification of 18+ at festivals, special screenings or similar culture and arts events.
