The Pervert's Guide to Ideology May 11–23, 2013

The program “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology” to be screened at Istanbul Modern Cinema takes its title from superstar philosopher Slavoj Zizek’s latest documentary. Interpreting various films from the history of cinema, Zizek maintains that cinema dictates to us how to desire and therefore is a pervert art. In the film “The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology,” which is part of the program, our guide Zizek opens the doors to a cinema beyond the simple story we witness. The selection, on the one hand, extends from a village in Laos that holds on to its traditions to the 1968 movement in Europe, while on the other it presents films that treat of cinema’s relationship with psychoanalysis and virtually demonstrate that cinema is an illusion and a desire machine.