Innocence of Memories

In 2008, Turkish author Orhan Pamuk, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature, published The Museum of Innocence, in which he recounts a tragic love story in 1970s Istanbul. Four years later, Pamuk opened a real museum in Istanbul with the same name, in which he exhibits the everyday objects that appear in his novel: socks, dresses, jewellery, even hundreds of cigarette ends. The film Innocence of Memories came out of the collaboration between Pamuk and filmmaker Grant Gee on the book and the museum. It proposes a third experience of the very same story, giving a different perspective that calls on a tripartite narrative between the city, the Museum and the writer himself. A visually astonishing baroque love letter to the city as a repository of memories.