Istanbul Collecting

This film tells the story of the creation of The Museum of Innocence by the Turkish author and Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk in the neighborhood of Çukurcuma in Istanbul. „Istanbul Collecting“ follows the meticulous artistic process of setting up the museum and shows the work and imagination of Orhan Pamuk and his team in realizing his literary ideas visually and freely in the space. At the same time it shows the design team’s search for the many objects described in the novel, a search that leads them into the hidden apartments and shops of Istanbul collectors, who have their own stories to tell about them.