VIEWS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

VIEWS OF THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Film archives around the world now carry both newsreels and documentaries, as well as fictional films shot on lands that were once part of the Ottoman Empire. Yet after World War I and the fall of the Empire, these moving images were largely overlooked, disregarded, or abandoned. By presenting images that at first seem to be unrelated, “Yeni Temâşâgerân: Osmanlı'dan Sinema Manzaraları” (The New Audience: Film Scenes from the Ottoman Empire) aims to ask questions and open new areas of discussion on Ottoman history, society, and culture at a time when the new film audience was emerging. In the program, you will find traces of the Ottoman Empire, from Algeria to Crimea and from the Balkans to Iraq, shot between 1902 and 1925.
Piano: Çiğdem Borucu Erdoğan, Kanun: Güniz Alkaç, Daire: Nurcan Betül Arısoy (at the screenings on October 9 and 10)
Band: Burgaz'dan Sonra Heybeliada (at the screening on October 12, 2014)
*Introduced by Elif Rongen Kaynakçı
Conversation: Film Scenes from the Ottoman Empire, 17:00