Taskafa, Stories of the Street
Synopsis
Taşkafa is a documentary essay, a film about memory and the most necessary forms of belonging, through a search for the role played in the city by Istanbul´s street dogs and their relationship to its human populations. Despite several major attempts by Istanbul´s rulers, politicians and planners over the last 400 years to exterminate them, the city´s street dogs have persisted thanks to an enduring alliance with widespread civilian communities, which recognize and defend their right to co-exist. Taşkafa is structured around readings by internationally acclaimed storyteller, essayist, and critic John Berger. The film opens a window on the contested relationships between power and the public, community and categorisation (in location and identity), and the ongoing struggle / resistance against a single way of seeing and being. http://http://www.fugitiveimages.org.uk/projects/vision-machine.1/taskafa-stories-of-the-street
Details
- Year
- 2013
- Type of film
- Features
- Running Time
- 66 mins
- Format
- HD
- Director
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman 1st Feature
- Producer
- Gulen Guler
- Co-Producer
- Bill McAlister
- Editor
- Alper Sen
- Screenwriter
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Gulen Guler
- Director of Photography
- Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Genre
Production status
Complete
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Last updated 6th January 2014