Out of town<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/8/6/1662801284734.png" width="550" alt="Crimes of the Future (2022)" style="width: 100%; max-width: 550px; vertical-align: middle; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" ratio="1.51" fr-original-style="width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Crimes of the future (2022)<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;"><h2 dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">To watch and watch: Ayvalık International Film Festival</h2><ul fr-original-style="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 1em; list-style-position: inside; box-sizing: border-box;"><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">What is it?&nbsp;Festival.&nbsp;With a dazzling selection of local and international films, Ayvalık Film Festival will also host various talks, panels, drama workshops, and more.</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Where? Ayvalık, Balıkesir</li><li dir="ltr" fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">When? September 16-21</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Why should you go? “That” film that you missed is probably in the program.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">Duly Noted:&nbsp;The director whose last film Parasite&nbsp;reached unpredictable heights, Park Chan-wook's latest film, Decision to Leave, David Cronenberg's acclaimed body-horror Crimes of the Future, François Ozon’s interpretation of Fassbinder’s The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant and much more are all just a ticket away.</li><li fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;">On September 9, the tickets went on pre-sale and are available at the biletix website and points of sale.</li></ul>

Aposto Istanbul

<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">ID</h3>Your nickname: Ken. People called me that in high school because Americans can’t pronounce Kenan right.I have attended “this” concert in Istanbul recently: Second at Zorlu PSM.I have explored “this” local musician in Istanbul recently: Min TakaI live in: KurtuluşI feel like I am from: Ayvalık<h3 fr-original-style="" style="margin: 0px; color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.85); font-weight: 500; padding: 0px; box-sizing: border-box;">SHOOT THE BREEZE</h3>Istanbul is a melting pot of musical influences. In fact, you are part of this melting pot in that you, together with Paul Osterlund and Parham A.G., formed a band called AŞK. How do you evaluate the current array of music coming from Istanbul?Istanbul has an incredibly vibrant music scene. When politics get me depressed, I try to maintain my optimism by thinking about the immense creativity coming out of the city. There are a lot of world-class musicians putting out unique music in a wide variety of genres. It’s exciting for me to see how some of these groups are also getting global recognition. For example, the darkwave band She Past Away is able to tour all over North America. They’re also very popular in Mexico and I’ve heard stories about fans there singing along to their songs at concerts in Turkish!The fact that bands doing this have been able to gain some global recognition is inspiring to me. It’s difficult for bands from a country like Turkey to break into the global market because people expect you to do something locally inspired rather than just playing straight ahead synth-pop or darkwave or surf rock, or whatever. The fact that there are so many world-class bands despite this pressure is a testament to how talented and determined musicians are here.<img src="https://images.aposto.com/2022/7/6/1661630957005.jpeg" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="0.67" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable">Kenan posing beside a graffiti artPhoto: Deniz Sabuncu<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">Could you please briefly talk about your upcoming book project titled Rockers and Radicals in Anatolia: Turkish Psychedelic Rock and the World 1960s? I am sure the book will shed light on many musicians as well as bands that we have not much heard about when we think of Anatolian rock!I think we’re living in an ideal moment for research on Anatolian Rock. The genre began in the 1960s when musicians in Turkey began combining rock music with local folk music traditions and instruments like the bağlama. But interestingly, this genre is today experiencing a revival.At heart, my book explores what relationship this musical explosion of Turkey’s 1960s and 1970s had with the protest movements that also shaped this period, both in Turkey and across the world. My book follows the development of Anatolian Rock through the music of trailblazer Tülay German, the trippy ensemble Moğollar, the musically experimental and politically ambiguous Erkin Koray and Barış Manço, and the militant Selda Bağcan and Cem Karaca. I show that Anatolian Rock musicians had strong ties to 60s left-wing movements from the genre’s very first days, when jazz singer Tülay German collaborated with prominent socialists like Ruhi Su and Erdem Buri to kick off a craze of adapting Turkish folk songs to Western popular music. While radicals and rockers were sometimes engaged in different pursuits, I argue that they must still be thought of as two sections of the same movement of the 60s.And lastly, we'd love to read/hear your selections of Anatolian rock tunes that you became aware of during your research for the book project. Maybe we could do a playlist on our Spotify account, curated by you!Of course! I’ve created a playlist for your readers. It combines some of the most iconic Anatolian Rock songs with some lesser known bangers, B-sides, and other rarities.<hr fr-original-style="" style="height: 0px; overflow: visible; border-bottom: none; clear: both; user-select: none; break-after: page; box-sizing: border-box;">Give a listen to Anatolian Rock playlist below, curated by Kenan Sharpe for Aposto Istanbul.<a data-type="embed" fr-original-style="" href="https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3g3RkG1qAH8tn41hFi2w3r?si=c464c143f4e64bee" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color: rgb(9, 9, 9); text-decoration: none; background-color: transparent; outline: none; cursor: pointer; transition: color 0.3s ease 0s; touch-action: manipulation; user-select: auto; box-sizing: border-box;" target="_blank"><img src="https://embed.apos.to/assets/2022/7/2022-08-26T14:54:49.141Z.png" style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px; border-style: none; position: relative; cursor: pointer; padding: 0px 1px; box-sizing: border-box;" width="550" ratio="1.58" fr-original-style="display: block; vertical-align: top; margin: 5px auto; text-align: center; width: 100%; max-width: 550px;" fr-original-class="fr-draggable"></a>

Meet Kenan Behzat Sharpe; academic, musician, and a passionate researcher of Turkey's past and present music.

Kenan Behzat Sharpe

Discovering Azize and the festival:&nbsp;Azize's relationship with Ayvalık started with a classic family summer house. When she got a little older, she parted ways with it until her return with Başka Sinema after spending many years with the Istanbul Film Festival, where she was the director for nearly ten years. “Ayvalık was a place I knew,” she says, “but when it comes to holding an event here, of course, you need to look at it from a different perspective.”It wasn’t hard to find the answer when they were searching for a place for the festival. Somewhere close to İstanbul, with a serious potential for audiences, able to fill the festival gap in the Aegean region, with notable architecture, history, and gastronomy, in fact even close to Mytilene Island for international ties. In the end, she says of the decision “Ayvalık agreed with us.” It brings with it the sincerity of being a festival without competition, where communicating with the audience is easier, and guests feel a sense of community. I think that as a viewer, it agreed with me too.Discovering with Azize: For our discovery journey, I ask her to pick a director who showed at the festival, and a film from the festival selection. She says&nbsp;“Do you wanna talk Kuosmanen?”&nbsp;and asks “You will watch it, right?” The movie she speaks of is on my list of course, the Grand Prix winner at Cannes Film Festival, Compartment No. 6.Despite the pandemic’s ongoing conditions, one of the two things Azize has set her mind to is returning the festival to Ayvalık after the mandatory pause. The second is to go to Cannes again. “The feelings it creates, the unexpected things,” she says of her Cannes favorite. The connection made between two strangers who dislike each other when they meet in a train compartment during a long journey isn’t the only unexpected thing in the movie.Just as he did with his previous film The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mäki (2016), Kuosmanen throws us a curve. He fills his film with small but nuanced moments. While everything progresses completely naturally, it activates your emotions, gives you hope, and hits the bullseye.&nbsp;Just like the festival itself.She says: “Don’t similar things happen in our lives? Don’t people suddenly surprise us when we connect with them? Don’t small, magical moments come to be when we are able to save ourselves from those patterns, corners, categories, really open ourselves up to someone, and feel ready to share?

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