Forms of Care
The Bubble
Salt Beyoğlu
December 3, 2025 19.00
![1 The Bubble <i>The Bubble</i> [Balon] (2021) filminden bir kare
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Still from The Bubble (2021)
©Valerie Blankenbyl
©Valerie Blankenbyl
Walk-in Cinema
The Bubble (2021)
Director: Valerie Blankenbyl
92 minutes
English; Turkish subtitles
Set in Florida’s The Villages, the largest retirement community in the US, The Bubble explores the architecture, ideology, and contradictions of a place built to offer an “ideal” life for over 150,000 senior citizens. Promising endless sunshine and leisure behind its gates, this sprawling “town” reveals what lies beneath the illusion of the American Dream and the issues of privatization, exclusion, and control.
Beyond its palm-lined streets, the film captures how the relentless expansion of The Villages disrupts surrounding residents and ecosystems—raising critical questions about land ownership, public access, and the politics of aging.
Organized as part of Forms of Care, the free-admission screening is open to everyone.
The Bubble (2021)
Director: Valerie Blankenbyl
92 minutes
English; Turkish subtitles
Set in Florida’s The Villages, the largest retirement community in the US, The Bubble explores the architecture, ideology, and contradictions of a place built to offer an “ideal” life for over 150,000 senior citizens. Promising endless sunshine and leisure behind its gates, this sprawling “town” reveals what lies beneath the illusion of the American Dream and the issues of privatization, exclusion, and control.
Beyond its palm-lined streets, the film captures how the relentless expansion of The Villages disrupts surrounding residents and ecosystems—raising critical questions about land ownership, public access, and the politics of aging.
Organized as part of Forms of Care, the free-admission screening is open to everyone.
