Film and TV
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Asghar Farhadi and beyond: how much of human creativity can AI take on?
Speaking at Brand Week Istanbul, Iranian director Asghar Farhadi argued that artificial intelligence cannot entirely replace human creativity, saying “AI has no subconscious.” So is it the presence of unconscious processes that makes us human, or the sediment of a life that is embodied, relational, laden with shame and irreversible?
Reading Lanthimos’s The Lobster through the sociology of emotions
After Altın Portakal: where is Türkiye’s cinema heading?
The 63rd Antalya Altın Portakal Film Festival, held from 24 to 31 October, opened up questions about the present and future of cinema in Türkiye, and about the festival’s claim to prestige, through the debates over its competition line-up and its Film Forum.
On grief: the shoes are gone, the messages remain
We give away the belongings of the dead, but their voices, messages and images stay on our phones. Starting from Sandra Wollner’s film Everytime, some thoughts on the shapes grief takes, from shoes left at the door to messages we still wait for an answer to.
Primetime: can anything become a spectacle for the sake of ratings?
Lance Oppenheim’s new film “Primetime” rebuilds Chris Hansen’s television world with strong performances, but stays on the surface when it comes to the human cost of the hunger for ratings and the ethical limits of the spectacle.
Waiting for the punchline with Norm Macdonald
Without blinking: the mirrored labyrinth of ‘You Can See Everything’
Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim’s Elizabeth Holmes documentary “You Can See Everything” is one of the strangest and most layered films of recent years. We see different reflections of everyone in it, Nathan included: as they see themselves, as everyone else sees them, and as we see them. In this hall of mirrors, everyone plays everyone, for the audience. And watches.
The flawed inheritance of love: three views of fathers and daughters in contemporary cinema
What we watched at Filmekimi
Death, grief, moral dilemmas and stories drawn from real lives stood out in this year’s Filmekimi selection, which has wrapped up in Istanbul and Ankara and continues in İzmir and Mersin this weekend.
Instadocs: an age that breeds its own monsters, filmed as it happens
As justice, reality and security are shaken, artificial intelligence brings a new perpetrator onto the stage. Netflix’s “Instadocs” series tells the story of a humanity forced to face the systems it has created.
A community-built festival in the footsteps of Lycia: Kaş Tiyatro Günleri
Held for the fifth time from 15 to 18 October under the theme “Lycian Cultural Heritage”, Kaş Tiyatro Günleri (Kaş Theatre Days) this year reaches beyond Kaş to Myra and Patara. We spoke with Ahmet Murat Akoy, one of the festival’s founders and president of the Kaş Environment and Culture Association, and volunteer supporter Aslınur Sarıca about the space opened up by theatre, the ecological struggle and making things together.
Bozcaada International Ecological Documentary Festival: ‘Local, small, slow’
We spoke with Nigar Mat, events coordinator of the Bozcaada International Ecological Documentary Festival, about the festival’s bond with the local community, the island’s ecological problems and what it takes to sustain a festival through solidarity.
The film that forgets its main character: Unabomber
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