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Film at the Ottoman Bank “The Last Days of Zeugma”
 The Museum’s movie theater will be screening the French documentary, The Last Days of Zeugma on Thursday, January 5, 2006, at 7:00 p.m. In July 2000, the Birecik dam built on the Euphrates flooded Zeugma, the symbolic city Alexander the Great had founded on the Silk Road. The film describes the race againts time that begins, as a team of archeologists, epigraphists and ceramic specialists set off to save what they can from the city before they are lost forever. We witness the discovery of a fourteen-room Roman villa, whose stunningly beautiful mosaic floor remains are dug out from the site, just before the newly uncovered villa disappears underwater.
Following the screening, Assist. Prof. Ahmet Yaraş, faculty member at Trakya University and chief archeologist of the excavation team at the Allianoi site, will lead a discussion entitled “A Past...
A Hope... A Future... Allianoi,” during which he will consider the Allianoi issue in Turkey from various perspectives.
The Museum's film program is prepared in collaboration with the Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) and offers films, complemented by discussions, on a different theme every month. Screenings are held at the Museum's movie theater on Thursdays at 7.00 p.m. and are free of charge.
The Last Days of Zeugma
Director: Thierry Ragobert / France
Released in: 2000 / Running time: 52 min.
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Assist. Prof. Ahmet Yaraş
was born in Malatya in 1966. He obtained both his BA (1987) and his MA (1991), in Archeology, from Istanbul University. From 1987 to 1993, he was a post-graduate researcher in the Department of Archeology at Istanbul University. From 1993 to 1998, he served as specialized archeologist in the Istanbul Museum of Archeology, and from 1998 to 2001, was director of the Bergama Museum. In 2002, he obtained his Ph.D. from the Department of Ancient History at Istanbul University and became assistant professor in the Department of Archeology at Trakya University. Yaraş has published over 50 articles and papers in scholarly periodicals and magazines, both in Turkey and abroad, and held 6 solo photograph exhibitions.
Since 1998, he has been scientific supervisor for the Bergama Yortanlı Dam (Allianoi) salvage project and has headed the Allianoi site excavation team.
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Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) started out as a civil platform and began its structuring process following the National Conference held in March 1997. Today it continues its activities as an association with professional status, certified by the Ministry of Culture. Starting with Istanbul, Ankara, Eskisehir and Izmir, BSB is in contact with documentary filmmakers throughout Turkey. Convinced that civil culture is crucial in designing better social futures and filling the blanks of collective social memory, the Documentary Filmmakers Association considers these functions complementary to the creative aspect of documentary filmmaking. BSB creates and promotes screening spaces other than television, organizes and participates in film festivals all over Turkey and offers film screenings with discussions, especially in universities. |
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