Yapım Tarihi - 2024
Süre - 00:49:34
Format - Belgesel, Renkli, Türkçe
Yönetmen / Director - Bahriye Kabadayı Dal
Senaryo / Script - Bahriye Kabadayı Dal
Görüntü Yönetmeni / Cinematography - Koray Kesik
Kurgu / Editing - Burak Dal
Müzik / Music - Adem Ekiz
Yapımcı / Producer - Bahriye Kabadayı Dal, Burak Dal
Yapım Şirketi / Production Company - Tarçın Film
Belgesel genç bir müzisyen olan Adem Ekiz hakkında. Eşi ve 3 çocuğuyla birlikte
Trabzon / Türkiye'de yaşıyor. Kendisi Müslüman ve anadili Pontus Rumcası.
Türkiye'de ve dünyada Pontusluların yaşadığı her yerde Karadenizlilerin
geleneksel müzik aleti olan “kemençe” çalıyor. Müziği aracılığıyla, geleneksel
şarkılarını hem Türkçe hem de Yunanca söyleyerek halklar arasındaki zincirleri
sessizce kırıyor.
The documentary is about a young musician, Adem Ekiz. He lives in Trabzon/
Turkey with his wife and 3 kids. He’s a Muslim, and his mother tongue is Pontian
Greek. He’s playing “kemancha”, traditional music instrument of Black Sea people
in Turkey, and in everywhere Pontian people live in the world. Through his music
he is silently breaking the chains between peoples by singing his traditional
songs in both Turkish and Greek language.
For me, this project means the documentary output of a long Black Sea journey.*
I can say that the process behind the documentary goes back to 2010. Because
that year, we visited to Thessaloniki/Kalamaria region in Greece to do
preliminary research about the writer, Yorgos Andreadis, of Black Sea origin.
This visiting made me realize once again that how important the “kemençe and
horon” were for Black Sea residents all over the world, and have a symbolic
value. Our testimonies in Thessaloniki, our wanderings in the neighborhoods and
streets bearing the names of the cities in the Black Sea region in Turkey
motivated me to tell this story via a documentary film.
In addition, since my family roots are in the Black Sea (a region close to
Trabzon, where our main character Adem from Beşköy lives), I have always been
interested in the stories hidden in the Black Sea throughout my documentary
career. After meeting Adem from Beşköy and his music, I came to the conclusion
that the most positive way to talk about the ancient Pontus culture, which is
another thorny garden for both Turkey and Greece, would be music and dance.
Adem's personality and stance also strengthened my conviction and carried him to
a more special place among the invaluable Turkish and Greek musicians who
produced similar productions in the field we tried to point out with our
documentary. Although the fact that we had to shoot most of the filming during
the pandemic period (2020-2022), we were not able to shoot many of the scenes we
dreamed of, but as in every documentary work, unexpected but spontaneous
surprises increased our motivation for the film. At this stage, we would like to
finalize the film by making additional shots. I look forward to sharing this
cinematographic Black Sea journey both with the people of the Black Sea region
with the common music, dance and culture they carry to different corners of the
world, and with peoples who have gone through similar processes in different
geographies.
*This journey will be complemented with a commemorative film about Yorgos
Andreadis, where I gained my first knowledge of the people who dispersed from
the Black Sea to the world, and a three-channel video work which I designed by
combining my feelings about the people who dispersed from the Black Sea to the
world with "nature", and developed during The Istanbul Biennial Production and
Research Programme, which I participated in 2019.
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