The first and only screening in Turkey of Director Burak Çevik's new film, Forgetting Forms, which had its world premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival, will be at Istanbul Modern Cinema on June 17th.
The opening program, prepared with the contributions of Türk Tuborg A.Ş., in the new venue of Istanbul Modern Cinema, takes its name from the director Burak Çevik's film, Forms of Forgetting.
Çevik's new film, Forms of Forgetting, which made its world premiere at the 73rd Berlin Film Festival and follows the process of remembering the past of a couple who are reunited after 14 years of separation, will be at Istanbul Modern for the first time in Turkey with the director's participation on June 17, following international screenings. will be displayed. The film, which will be hidden in Istanbul Modern for 14 years after this screening, will not be screened in Turkey again during this time, thus turning into an experience of how memory is layered and rewritten, similar to its subject.
Stating that Çevik produces an abstract and nostalgic feeling by using the creative power of forgetting in the film, Istanbul Modern Film Curator Müge Turan said, “The film fills the gaps in memory through a couple's 14-year separation relationship by mirroring the history of Istanbul Modern's Warehouse building, which has met its visitors for 14 years. The couple's dialogues are accompanied by images from ancient ruins, abandoned or unconstructed buildings of Istanbul Modern. By actively working the memory of agile film, he is trying to understand the cinema itself, somewhere deep inside," he said.
Director Burak Çevik narrates the story of the 14-year concealment of the film as follows:
“I felt that the construction of Istanbul Modern was the best place for me to have construction boots on my feet and to show and hide the Ways of Forgetting that I have been working on for a long time while wearing a hard hat on my head. The idea came to my mind that Renzo Piano would remain hidden for 14 years on a hard disk that evokes a black box inside his transparent building that allows you to see the sea from everywhere. Can we make the audience experience the relationship of the film with memory and the things it questions through the practice of screening? That was the main question.”
The subject of the movie, which will be screened on Saturday, June 17 at 17.00:XNUMX, is as follows:
“The couple Erdem (Senocak) and Nesrin (Uçars) came together 14 years after their separation, and they are trying to remember their relationship and why they ended it. Throughout the film, the dreams they remember today and the dreams they said or even saw in the past are intertwined. Meanwhile, the director is trying to remember something else through the memories of the places he recorded with the images in his own chamber. He wants to find something he lost in the movie by looking at the remains of an abandoned building, or by looking through a hole in the middle of a frozen lake, maybe even scanning a dark room with a flashlight.”