Tribute to Etel Adnan • Ismyrna

Filmmaker and artist Joana Hadjithomas and poet, essayist, and painter Etel Adnan met 15 years before making this film. Now close friends, the pair share a city and heritage: İzmir, the ancient port of Smyrna in Turkey, a place that has acquired mythical status for the two artists. Yet neither of them has ever been there. In Ismyrna, part of the I Stared at Beauty So Much series by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige, the artists question their attachment to objects, places, family stories, childhood imagination, and individual mythologies.