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Film at the Ottoman Bank Museum "August Ant"
 The Museum's movie theater is showing the Turkish documentary August Ant, under the theme "Time, Place and Life Stories," on Thursday, November 23, at 7:00 p.m. Directed by Bingöl Elmas, the film tells the story of 45-year-old İbo, who even in the face of adversity, refuses to give up his struggle to make his dreams come true. Following the screening, Nurşen Bakır leads a discussion entitled Everyday Stories and Documentary Film.
45 year-old İbo is the "town crier," the "tea bearer" (çaycı) and the marriage officer in a small town. He also tends his useless patch of land where nothing grows right. The reason he works so hard at so many different things is to make his dreams – which almost no one else believes in – come true. To him, his life has purpose and harmony, to others; it is an instrument out of tune. As if to spite those who say small-town life leaves no room for dreams, he rushes from one job to the other, industrious as an ant, cheerful as a cricket.
The Museum's film program is prepared in collaboration with the Documentary Filmmakers Association (BSB) and offers a film, complemented by a discussion, on a different theme every week. Screenings are held free of charge. Please call (0212) 334 22 70 to make reservations.
August Ant
Turkey/2005/50 mins.
Director: Bingöl Elmas
Discussion: Everyday Stories and Documentary
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Nurşen Bakır (Department of Film and Television, Bilgi University)
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Nurşen Bakır
An experimental and documentary filmmaker, Bakır studied Philosophy at Hacettepe University from 1979 to 1981 then dropped out to pursue film studies in the United States. She obtained her BA in film and video from the City University of New York in 1991 and her MA in cinema from San Francisco State University, in 2002. She has made several 16-mm shorts – Sounds of Euphrates (1990), Thrift (1995), A Waittune (1998), Partisans (2001), and Pipelines (2002) and worked with American and Dutch filmmakers. Bakır is currently a faculty member in the Department of Film and Television at Bilgi University.
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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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