Screen/Society--New Turkish Cinema--"Innocence of Memories"-- Lead-in to visit by novelist Orhan Pamuk

Film Screening: "Innocence of Memories" (Grant Gee, 2015, 90 min, UK, in English, Color, Blu-Ray) / Novelist Orhan Pamuk recently opened a museum in Istanbul: The Museum of Innocence. It's a museum that's also a novel and its objects trace a tale of doomed love in 1970's Istanbul. Grant Gee's "Innocence of Memories" (2015) is a documentary about the museum/novel and takes a tour of the objects as the starting point for a trip through images, landscapes and the chemistry of the city. / Orhan Pamuk will be visiting Duke's campus on November 12 and 13 to both discuss his latest novel "A Strangeness in My Mind" (Knopf 2015) and to talk about The Museum of Innocence, his multi-genre project that includes a novel, a museum, and an exhibit catalogue ("The Innocence of Objects"). The author of eight novels, Pamuk is the winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. The Swedish Academy praised Pamuk, 'who in the quest for the melancholic soul of his native city has discovered new symbols for the clash and interlacing of cultures.' / Trailer: https://youtu.be/rNVIUGuKJ9M // Co-sponsored by GEO/Duke in Istanbul, and AMES Presents.