WELCOMED TO GERMANY? & ZAHIR in Berlin

WELCOMED TO GERMANY? & ZAHIR

will be exhibited
as part of the 

*COLLECTING MOMENTUM #2

 curated by Kopuntu and  BorgoFuturo.

details here and here.

THERE AND BACK & ISTANBUL NOTES in Berlin

20.02.2020 

KIYI KIYI / THERE AND BACK 

trailer: https://vimeo.com/59870337

dir. Özlem Sarıyıldız, Bilge Demirtaş 

TR with ENG subtitles

25’00’’; 2013; Turkey

Who passes us from Dalyan town to the Kaunos Tombs and Çandır village located on both sides of the canal which joins the Aegean Sea are the rowing women. Homes and boats for these women, who have been making a living from rowing for many years, have become an extension of each other; and the relationships they established in these places and with these places have been intertwined. 'There and back' follows  the daily lives of  the rowing women whose lives are organized away from the patterns of the urban theories.

27.02.2020 (with the participation of Özlem Sarıyıldız)

İSTANBUL MAKAMI / ISTANBUL NOTES

trailer: https://vimeo.com/165433060

dir. Özlem Sarıyıldız, Yunus Emre Aydın

TR with ENG subtitles

69'46''; 2016; Turkey

Istanbul Notes is a cinematographic improvisation with five musicians from abroad who fall in love with the Maqam Music (Classical Ottoman Music) and decide to live in Turkey believing that music might best be learned in the lands it was born and performed. Each has different stories but the desire to find their own paths despite modern times’ obligations intersects their roads. Constructing three layers -music, İstanbul and combination of both in the filmic platform- the film is a modern times fairytale in praise of İstanbul and its classical music; a film about obstinacy, desire, looking for one’s own raison d’etre, travelling, and the power of music to understand the other and express oneself in the pursuit of intertwining stories following passion.