In collaboration with the Marmara University Faculty of Communications, from January 14th to 31st İstanbul Modern Cinema will be focusing on “metacinema”– a filmmaking device that is but little used in Turkey. “Matryoshka Movies” is a program of films that part the veil that normally conceals the inscrutable world of cinema to give us a glimpse of a filmmaker’s emotional state, the stresses involved in cinematic creation, and the “inside story” of the movie industry: Its subject in other words is films whose subject is films. By exposing the “smoke and mirrors” involved in filmmaking such films deliberately create an awareness among viewers that what they are viewing is really a movie.
Aşk Filmlerinin Unutulmaz Yönetmeni, 1990
Director & Writer: Yavuz Turgul
Cast: Şener Şen, Pıtırcık Akkerman, Aytaç Yörükaslan, Yavuzer Çetinkaya
Filim Bitti, 1989
Yönetmen / Senaryo: Yavuz Özkan
Oyuncular: Kadir İnanır, Zeliha Berksoy, Halil Ergün, Meral Oğuz
Gece Yolculuğu, 1987
Director & Writer: Ömer Kavur
Cast: Aytaç Arman, Macit Koper, Şahika Tekand, Arslan Kaçar, Orhan Çağman
Hayallerim, Aşkım ve Sen, 1987
Director: Atıf Yılmaz / Writer: Ümit Ünal
Cast: Türkan Şoray, Oğuz Tunç, Müşfik Kenter, Fatoş Sezer, Engin İnal
İki Süper Film Birden, 2006
Director: Murat Şeker
Writers: Murat Şeker, Selami Genli, Erol Adilce
Cast: Tim Seyfi, Murat Akkoyunlu, Beste Bereket, Uğur Polat
Mayıs Sıkıntısı, 1999
Director & Writer: Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Cast: Mehmet Emin Toprak, Mehmet Emin Ceylan, Fatma Ceylan, Muzaffer Özdemir
Uzlaşma, 1991
Director: Oğuzhan Tercan
Writers: Oğuzhan Tercan & Sabahattin Çetin
Cast: Halil Ergun, Berhan Şimşek, Nur Sürer, Kutay Köktürk, Salih Kalyon, Reis Çelik