May 2007 Program May 1–31, 2007

MAGNUM IN MOTION ON TOUR
Photographers and the Moving lmage
Eve Arnold
Behind the Veil
Eve and Marilyn

Magnum Group - Magnum Story 1 - 2
Philip Jones Griffiths
Cambodian Odyssey
Jean Gaumy
On the Rowanlea Trawler
The Smoking House
Submarine
Chris Steele-Perkins
Video Diaries: Dying for Publicity
Bruce Gilden
Misery Loves Company: The Life and Death of Bruce Gilden
Elliott Erwitt
Beauty Knows No Pain
Martin Parr
Think of England
Rene Burri
Two Faces of China
Donovan Wylie
The Train
Susan Meiselas
Pictures from a Revolution

Magnum'un Hikayesi 3 / Magnum Story 3
Magnum Group: The Magnum Eye
Alex Webb
El Otro Lada
Gueorgui Pinkhassov
The Russian Prison
Robert Capa
Robert Capa: In Love and War

MAGNUM IN MOTION ON TOUR
İstanbul Modern Cinema's Magnum in Motion on Tour program presents 19 documentary films by and about photographers from the renowned international agency Magnum Photos reflecting diverse origins and directions. There are no formal boundaries, only the desire to document, record and create images. The films selected for Magnum in Motion make new pictures and poetic images, and unknown contemporary documents available to the film audience.

PANEL: On Magnum Photos and Magnum in Motion
12th May Saturday 17:30
Speakers: Rene Burri, Photographer
Chris Steele-Perkins, Photographer
Dominique Green, Magnum Photos London

EVE ARNOLD

BEHIND THE VEIL
UK | 1969, DVD, Color, 50' | English
Eve Arnold gives us a rare glimpse of the life 'behind the veil' in the world of the harem, as she films the life of a young Sheikha preparing for marriage into the ruling family of Dubai.

EVE AND MARILYN
UK | 1987, Beta Sp, Color, 30' | English
This documentary on the doyenne of Magnum, Eve Arnold focuses specifıcally upon her relationship with Marilyn Monroe, whom Arnold photographed perhaps more than any other photographer of over a period of time.

MAGNUM GROUP - MAGNUM STORY 1 - 2
UK | 1989, Beta Sp, Color, 64' | English
Magnum'un Hikâyesi, ajansın kurucuları olan Robert Capa, Henri Cartier­Bresson, George Rodger ve David (Chim) Seymour'un kariyerlerini, 1930'Iar ve İkinci Dünya Savaşı boyunca izliyor ve savaştan hemen sonra bir araya gelerek Magnum'u kurmalarını anlatıyor.

PART 1: DECISIVE MOMENTS
Magnum Story follows the careers of the four founders Robert Capa, Henri Cartier-Bresson, George Rodger, David (Chim) Seymour, during the 1930s and the Second World War. Just after the war, they came together to found Magnum, and the films shows how the agency was established.

PART 2: THE SAVAGE YEARS
UK | 1989, Beta Sp, Color, 64' | English
Part 2 of the Magnum Story deals with the turbulent 60s, and follows the Magnum photographers who documented this momentous, exciting, yet troubled decade producing some of the most powerful images.

PHILIP JONES GRIFFITHS

CAMBODIAN ODYSSEY
UK | 1996, Beta Sp, Color, 40' | English
Philip Jones Griffiths - the noted author of the classic photo book Vietnam inc. has been photographing South-East Asia and Cambodia of more than 35 years. Richard Traylor­Smith's portrait of Jones Griffiths follows his trip to Cambodia in the 90s.

JEAN GAUMY

ON THE ROWANLEA TRAWLER
France | 1992, Beta Sp ,Black - White, 4' | French with English subtitles
A short, beautiful, silent impression of life on the decks of a trawler, the film captures the beauties of a fisherman's life.

THE SMOKING HOUSE
France | 1984, Beta Sp, Color, 36' | French with English subtitles
The film looks affectionately at a group of women doing a repetitious and boring work at a smoking house.

SUBMARINE
France | 2006, Beta Sp,Color, Black&White, 26' | French with English subtitles
Jean Gaumy accompanied La Perla submarine on a four month tour to make a five part documentary for the French television. This is a glimpse into the depth of the documentary.

CHRIS STEELE-PERKINS

VIDEO DIARIES: DYING FOR PUBLICITY
UK | 1993, Beta Sp, Color, 70' | English
Not only the infinite sorrows of Africa, but the processes of bearing witness to them are brought vividly to life in this gripping video diary. Frequently unbearably poignant, and sometimes painfully honest, Steele-Perkins documents famine and disease in Somalia and the Sudan.

BRUCE GILDEN

MISERY LOVES COMPANY: THE LIFE AND DEATH OF BRUCE GILDEN
USA | 2006, Beta Sp, Color, Black&White, 60' | English
Gideon Gold's film not only reveals the extremely confrontational Gilden way of photographing people on the New York streets, it has the photographer philosophizing candidly about his life, his difficult upbringing, his relationship with his daughter and singular approach to photography.

ELLIOT ERWITT

BEAUTY KNOWS NO PAIN
USA | 1971, DVD, 26', Color | English
Elliot Erwitt takes a sharply focused look at the training of young girls whose ambition is to become a 'Rangerette' - a cheerleader at Kilgore College, Texas.

MARTIN PARR

THINK OF ENGLAND
UK | 1999, Beta Sp ,Color, 49'  | English
The film explores an issue that has concerned Martin Parr as a photographer throughout his career - the nature of Englishness.

RENE BURRI

TWO FACES OF CHINA
USA | 1968, Beta Sp, Color, 53' | English
Rene Burri traveled thousands of miles through China, to town and country. His film examines how Chinese Communism had reconciled - or perhaps had not reconciled. The film had just finished before Chairman Mao's Cultural Revolution burst upon China, attempting to sweep away traditional China.

DONOVAN WYLIE

THE TRAIN
UK | 2001, Beta Sp, Color, 50' | Russian with English subtitles
Shot over nearly a year, but memorable for its shots of the Siberian winter, Donovan Wylie's film follows a 'church train' over the broad, empty landscape of Northern and Eastern Russia.

SUSAN MEISELAS

PICTURES FROM A REVOLUTION
USA | 1991, Beta Sp, Color, 90' | English and Spanish with English subtitles
Susan Meiselas returned to Nicaragua with filmmakers Richard P. Rogers and Alfred Guzzetti, ten years after she published her renowned book about the Sandinista Revolution, Nicaragua (1981), curious to find the people she photographed and ask them whether they thought the pain and the sacrifice worthwhile.

MAGNUM GROUP - MAGNUM STORY 3

PART 3: CLOSE TO THE EDGE
UK | 1989, Beta Sp, Color, 64' | English
Magnum Story Part 3 brings Magnum into the 1980s, when television and shrinking magazine markets had the agency in a state of perpetual crisis.

MAGNUM GROUP: THE MAGNUM EYE

GUEORGUI PINKHASSOV

THE RUSSIAN PRISON
USA | 1992, Beta Sp, Color, 10' | Russian with English subtilles
Gueorgui Pinkhassov gains rare entry into one of Russia's normally impenetrable prisons and films the prisoners sardonically telling their stories.

ALEX WEBB

EL OTRO LADO
USA | 1992, Beta Sp, Color, 11' | English
Shot in places almost like a surveillance film, Alex Webb's short follows the desperate flight of Mexicans trying to cross illegally into the United States.

ROBERT CAPA

ROBERT CAPA: IN LOVE AND WAR
USA | 2002, Beta Sp, Color, Black&White, 85' | English, Spanish, French with English subtitles
Anne Makepiece's film shows why Capa, co-founder of Magnum, was such a driving force behind Magnum in this fascinating portrait, in which she takes care to explore, both the charm of the man and the significance of the work.