One and the Many Screenings:
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off
Salt Galata
September 21, 2016 19.00
Still from the film Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014)
Courtesy the director
Courtesy the director
SALT Galata, Auditorium
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014)
Director: Cem Kaya
96 minutes
Turkish and German; English subtitles
Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world even though its film industry, Yeşilçam, didn’t have enough written material to start with. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. These quickly and low-budget produced look-alike movies were adapted to the taste of local audiences with huge success in the rural Anatolian hinterland. What they lacked in equipment and budget they compensated through excessive use of manpower both behind and in front of the camera.
Taking seven years to produce, Cem Kaya’s Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014) features interviews with legendary Turkish directors, producers, actors and film technicians, as the documentary uncovers and captures a glimpse of the country’s tumultuous history of movie making.
Organized in parallel to the exhibition One and the Many at SALT Galata, the program is free. Reservations are not accepted.
Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014)
Director: Cem Kaya
96 minutes
Turkish and German; English subtitles
Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s was one of the biggest producers of film in the world even though its film industry, Yeşilçam, didn’t have enough written material to start with. In order to keep up with the demand, screenwriters and directors were copying scripts and remaking movies from all over the world. These quickly and low-budget produced look-alike movies were adapted to the taste of local audiences with huge success in the rural Anatolian hinterland. What they lacked in equipment and budget they compensated through excessive use of manpower both behind and in front of the camera.
Taking seven years to produce, Cem Kaya’s Remake, Remix, Rip-Off (2014) features interviews with legendary Turkish directors, producers, actors and film technicians, as the documentary uncovers and captures a glimpse of the country’s tumultuous history of movie making.
Organized in parallel to the exhibition One and the Many at SALT Galata, the program is free. Reservations are not accepted.
