Screening Program:
"I'm tired of living in an Istanbul where nobody understands me"
Salt Beyoğlu
September 28 – October 26, 2023
Still from Ah Güzel İstanbul [Oh, Beautiful Istanbul] (1966)
©Fanatik Film
©Fanatik Film
Presented in parallel to the exhibition No Further Records: Reşad Ekrem Koçu and Istanbul Encyclopedia Archive, this screening program brings together a selection of five films from 1960s Istanbul. The program’s title is inspired by a news clipping that Reşad Ekrem Koçu quoted in an article on suicide incidents in the Istanbul Encyclopedia: “I’m tired of living in a world where nobody understands me.”
As Koçu was trying to complete the encyclopedia in the 1960s, urban life underwent rapid transformation. His feelings about this unfamiliar transformation can be traced in numerous encyclopedia articles: The historian’s sorrowful quotation also applies to him, as he also does not understand the city’s changing dynamics. The program follows Koçu’s melancholy to bring up social, cultural, and economic issues of the time, tracing what accumulates, what cannot gather, and what constantly changes in Istanbul through examples from cinema in Turkey.
This free-admission program will take place in the Walk-in Cinema at Salt Beyoğlu every Thursday at 19.00.
PROGRAM
Karanlıkta Uyananlar [Those Awakening in the Dark], Ertem Göreç, 1964
September 28, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Yangın Var: Eski İstanbul Kabadayıları [Fire: Old Istanbul Tough Guys], Lütfi Ömer Akad, 1960
October 5, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Suçlular Aramızda [The Guilty Are Among Us], Metin Erksan, 1964
October 12, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Beş Şeker Kız [Five Sweet Girls], Osman F. Seden, 1964
October 19, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Ah Güzel İstanbul [Oh, Beautiful Istanbul], Atıf Yılmaz, 1966
October 26, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
In accordance with Article 7 of Law No. 5224 amended on 18.01.2019, films that have not been assessed and classified by the General Directorate of Cinema, Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Republic of Turkey, can only be screened under the classification of 18+ at festivals, special screenings or similar culture and arts events.
As Koçu was trying to complete the encyclopedia in the 1960s, urban life underwent rapid transformation. His feelings about this unfamiliar transformation can be traced in numerous encyclopedia articles: The historian’s sorrowful quotation also applies to him, as he also does not understand the city’s changing dynamics. The program follows Koçu’s melancholy to bring up social, cultural, and economic issues of the time, tracing what accumulates, what cannot gather, and what constantly changes in Istanbul through examples from cinema in Turkey.
This free-admission program will take place in the Walk-in Cinema at Salt Beyoğlu every Thursday at 19.00.
PROGRAM
Karanlıkta Uyananlar [Those Awakening in the Dark], Ertem Göreç, 1964
September 28, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Yangın Var: Eski İstanbul Kabadayıları [Fire: Old Istanbul Tough Guys], Lütfi Ömer Akad, 1960
October 5, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Suçlular Aramızda [The Guilty Are Among Us], Metin Erksan, 1964
October 12, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Beş Şeker Kız [Five Sweet Girls], Osman F. Seden, 1964
October 19, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
Ah Güzel İstanbul [Oh, Beautiful Istanbul], Atıf Yılmaz, 1966
October 26, 19.00, Salt Beyoğlu, Walk-in Cinema
