RUNNING FROM INSECURITIES
Dırector's Statement
Skinny? Sexy? Beautiful? Fat? Hairy? Who cares? Stop fucking making comments on physical appearances. That doesn't mean we are all great, just opposite; we are all from flesh and bone, we are all same shit. We don't care how you look, we care how do you think.</p> <p>We made this project with Alper Çağan Arslan, as like many other projects 🙂 I've met and believed Alper Çağan in 2012, the northern coastal line of Istanbul in a student dormitory. Sİnce then I've witnessed evolving his music. After eight and a half years, finally, when he found his sound, I've found his music extraordinarily sensual, intimate, assertive, and adverse in its subtext. So when he comes up with an audiovisual project, I was the one for sure who is going to collaborate with him. Because his expectations from this project were exactly the same as his music and exactly the same as my art; again; SENSUAL, INTIMATE, ASSERTIVE and ADVERSEç
This project tell a story of people who searches for healing through forgetting the aesthetics that is not speaking for us and dreaming a new one, a bold utopia. An audiovisual elaboration of different ways of looking at our bodies..
I think this film is a type of Stop-Motion VideoArt which consist around 3000 pictures. There are more than 30 local artists put their energy to this project including Models, Dancers, Performers and Set Crew. Pictures are not cropped from a video, the film all consist of pictures which are taken by me.
Co-Producers and Writers:
Alper Çağan Arslan
Ömer Akdağ
Director and Cinematographer: Ömer Akdağ
Cast:
Yakup Demirci
Cem Tümer
Merve
Ceytengri
Make-Up: Esra Arslan
Production Assistants:
Erdem Açıkgöz
Lighting:
Emre Şirin
Editor: Afra Feldmann
Duration
05:04
PROJECT DATE
December 2020
FILM FESTIVALS
TBA