12th BOSTON TURKISH FESTIVALSM

Colors of Anatolia
 
OCTOBER 29 - DECEMBER 15, 2007
 
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DOCUMENTARY AND SHORT FILM COMPETITION

 

Friday - November 23, 2007    at 7 p.m.


Main Auditorium
Harvard Film Archive
Carpenter Center for the Arts, Cambridge
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In Competition

ZYMOTIC-AMAUROSIS

Contagious Arbitrary Blindness

Written and directed by Ozan Adam

Cast:
Melih Ucar, Safak Acar, Yigit Adam, Mehmet Adam, Emine Komut

Short / Turkey / 2006 / 24 min.




Dreams of a blind man...

 


Director OZAN ADAM:

Ozan Adam graduated from Central Saint Martins University / Goldsmith College in London in 1997 where he studied script writing, photoshop, animation, anthropology and film. In 1999 he received a BA degree from Bard College in New York with double major in film and visual arts. In 2001 he got his MFAG degree from City College of New York's Media Arts Production Department.  He currently teaches experimental cinema in Bilgi University's Film and Television Department in Istanbul.

FILMOGRAPHY as director:

For the Blind (Fiction / 60 min.)
The Two Names of a Testimony about the Execution of a Happening and a Suitcase Full of Broken Records (Experimental / 15 min.)
Zymotic-Amaurosis: Contagious Arbitrary Blindness (Experimental / 24 min. / International Ankara Film Festival Special Jury Award)
Last Film in a Bottle  (Experimental / 10 min.)
The Persistence of Low End Ambient Vision  (Video Art Installation / 45 min.)
The Electromagnetic Reproduction of Digital Codes  (Video Art Installation / 3 min.)
The Division of a Blue Cell  (Animation / 5 min.)
Abstraction on Clouds  (Animation / 5 min.)
The Assassination of the Seven Arts  (Experimental / 3 min.)
The Visual Diary of a Journey  (Documentary / 45 min.)
Little Birdie  (Animation / 1 min.)
Abstraction on Clouds  (Animation / 5 min.)
Halle  (Documentary / 17 min.)
Antakya (Documentary / 45 min.)
Istanbul  (Documentary / 24 min.)