Film

I began to attend Bergman’s films in my late teens-an insecure, confused adolescent hungrily seeking explanations and solace for my existential angst. Bergman films like Wild Strawberries and The Magician so powerfully affected me that I began to reflect on my own life in a different light. Here was a director who made films that didn’t…

Organic, living organism that grew and grew over the period of 47 years. Ken says, “The film is done; it weighed on me all those years.” But I wouldn’t take that for the last word. Maybe the only film I know that is Artaud: Monumental Song of Despair & Hope. Of epic proportions, incredibly complex…

One of Turkey’s most poetic and honored directors, Omer Kavur, died on 12 May 2005 at the age of 61. For years Kavur has been battling lymph node cancer, but continued to make films through 2003 when his “Karsilasma” (Encounter) was premiered to critical acclaim. Born in Ankara in 1944, Kavur studied film at the…