Film is an art form that finds expression in the production of moving images using photography, camera and sound technology. As a rule, the images are projected onto a screen in the dark using a film projector or generated on a screen. Nowadays, cinema and television films are mostly coloured images that are set to music and accompanied by music. The original word for 'filming' is cinematography (from the Greek kinema, movement, cf. kinematics and -graphy, 'to record'), the analogue of photography, 'sound recording'. From this word, the expression cinema 'film theatre' develops as a shortening (light play 'work of film art', this word also represents a contemporary formation of the early years of film into acting).
For the actors significantly involved in the production of a film - in particular screenwriters, directors, actors, cameramen, production designers, costume designers, film editors, sound designers and film composers - the film is also a means of artistic expression and cultural activity. Certain films, especially “author's films”, have now become an integral part of high culture and are reviewed and analysed from an art historical perspective like other artistic works. The artistic forms of film include, in particular, experimental film.
In our article "Deep encounter in Alexandroupolis" we had already reported in detail about the meeting with the Swiss filmmakers Philip Spaar and Fabian Senn as well as the cameraman Stefan Schöbi as part of their film project "Road to Cinema Jenin".
On our way to the Balkans, we arrived again at the campsite in Alexandroupolis as part of our project tour. The event we were about to encounter here was almost 10 years ago, but its explosiveness is more relevant than ever. It shows once again the horror of terror, violence, war and the consequences of flight and migration.
Since the police operations against the so-called Gezi protests in 2013, art from and in Turkey has had a real problem. Everyone now expects art to at least partially address political issues.
A few years ago, the film for the series "Turkish for Beginners" was shown on television, so it's no wonder that the German-Turkish actor Adnan Maral is on everyone's lips. Born on July 1, 1968 in Çıldır in the province of Ardahan, Adnan Maral grew up in Frankfurt am Main, where he ended up at the age of two.
The internationally highly acclaimed and award-winning film "Watchtower" by Pelin and Tolga Esmer is now coming to German cinemas from April 17th, 2014.
Who is not familiar with the historical film "Gladiator" in which Russel Crowe played the leading role. About 10 years ago, the Australian actor stayed in Turkey for several weeks of shooting of his new film "The Water Diviner".
In the Turkish drama film "Benim Dünyam - My World", a blind and deaf woman and her teacher, who is suffering from dementia, lead each other out of the darkness into the light.
With his team which is composed of divers and speleologists; director Göksel Gülensoy, who is passionate about Hagia Sofia that impresses people with its dimensions and architecture, brought the secrets which are hidden in the depths of Hagia Sofia to light.
Regardless of whether you like one of the most well-known US sitcom series or not, now the yellow characters of the cult show "The Simpsons" have penetrated to the top of Turkish politics.
Probably no fictitious person became a cult figure as it was the case with Horst Schimanski from the ARD television series Tatort, in which he served from June 28, 1981 in 29 episodes as criminal detective Schimanski in Duisburg.
Until March 11, 2018, the exhibition "The best press photos in the world", which is open daily between 10:00 am and 07:00 pm, takes place in Kitzingen in the Rathaushalle.
It has been quite a while since we met Osman Okkan, personally, maybe the last meeting was even the one at the multi-day seminar in Adrasan, where we met at a seminar about the documentary cinematic presentation of various Turkish authors and their works.