Nuri Bilge Ceylan, the filmmaker and photographer from Istanbul recently won the Best Director award at the Cannes Film Festival for his work entitled “Three Monkeys” or “3 Maymun” (in Turkish). Read my previous posting about the famous movie director from Istanbul here.
I found this movie trailer video of Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s newest film [...]
I’ve been meaning to write about one of my favorite photographers of Istanbul for months and months now but to write about him requires more depth of thought, the studying of his photographs and some research. Nicknamed the “Eye of Istanbul”, his name is Ara Güler of Beyoglu, Istanbul.
If there ever was a photographer [...]
Bravo! To Istanbul filmmaker and photographer, Nuri Bilge Ceylan who has just won the Best Director award at the Cannes film festival for his newest film “Three Monkeys”. Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s previous films, “Uzak” (Distant) and “Iklimler” (Climates) – both movies which I have seen and loved is a major contributor to the [...]
Mercan Dede, is my favorite Turkish musician. His world is the distance between Istanbul and Montreal. I’ve seen him perform once in Toronto. Once was not enough. His music touches the soul of the artist. Gets to the back of the soul, mind, spirit. It will carry you away from [...]
I met Bahman Ghobadi, the extraordinary filmmaker from Iran for a simple reason: I wanted to. I wanted to meet him because his film “Turtles Can Fly” had touched my soul. Maybe that is the definition of a great artist – defined as one who touches the heart and soul of the [...]
If you didn’t know already, I thought I should let all talented novice and professional filmmakers know about a short film competition launched by the European Commission as part of its activities on the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008. The topic is intercultural dialogue, on anything ranging from equality, social justice to respect [...]
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