Tülay German is a historical figure of what we now call “Anatolian pop”. Having started out as a jazz singer, she changes her style under the guidance of her husband, Erdem, and rearranges songs from her homeland. Her musical career took a political and a artistic turn when she fled Turkey and settled in Paris in 1966. Becoming the voice of immigrants in France, she composed revolutionary and Turkish folk songs. She chose a life of solitude after the death of her husband, but always reveals herself in her songs, while telling forty years of Turkish history.
Didem Pekun took her BA on ethnomusicology at SOAS and her MA on documentary at Goldsmiths College in London. Her films were screened in many festivals and broadcasted on channels such as Sky Satellite, IZ TV and during several conferences. She teaches editing at Bilgi University and participated to the Greenhouse Project funded by EU with her documentary Tülay German.
Barıs Dogrusoz was born in 1978 in Istanbul and lived in France the first 30 years of his life. Baris did his MFA at ‘Le Quai’, School of Fine Arts in France. He participated in many international exhibitions. He teaches found footage course at Bilgi University in Istanbul. He's been running Emergence for 6 years, a developmental education business with 10 centers around France.
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In the mountains you might meet Asad whose house was one of those flooded when the “Karun-3” dam |
Argentinian Lesson with its visual aesthetics, its rhythm and composition parallels a narration |