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<\/p>\nVERC\u0130HAN Z\u0130FL\u0130O\u011eLU<\/p>\n
ISTANBUL \u2013 H\u00fcrriyet Daily News<\/p>\n
Director Y\u00fcksel Aksu collaborates with the blind artist Devrim Tar\u0131m in directing a new Turkish film titled \u2018Entelk\u00f6y \u2013 Efek\u00f6y.\u2019 A graduate of the Istanbul University and Middle East Technical University, Tar\u0131m has shot a dream scene for the film. \u2018I am interested in everything visual since I am blind. This is why I took cinema education,\u2019 says Tar\u0131m<\/p>\n
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A young, blind director has been recruited to film a dream scene in a new Turkish movie after a childhood of overcoming difficulties convincing his family and friends that he could study and be successful.<\/p>\n
Devrim Tar\u0131m, who has been blind since birth, has contributed to the new movie called \u201cEntelk\u00f6y \u2013 Efek\u00f6y\u201d by Y\u00fcksel Aksu filmed in the Aegean town of Didim about a village\u2019s fight against construction of a new power plant. Tar\u0131m is the latest example of Turkey\u2019s new generation of directors pushing the limits of art in Turkish cinema.<\/p>\n
Tar\u0131m, who studied cinema at Istanbul University and the Middle East Technical University, directed a dream scene in the film. \u201cI hesitated when I first received the proposal and wanted to read the script,\u201d Tar\u0131m said. \u201cThe approach is very important because disabled people in Turkey are open to exploitation. But when I learned that the director of the film was Aksu, I accepted it, because I took script lessons from him at university.\u201d<\/p>\n
In the dream scene Tar\u0131m directed, a young man, who is the muhtar of the village, falls deeply in love with a German-Turkish woman but could not talk to her. He sees in his dream that he marries her, kisses her and enters the bridal chamber with her. \u201cJust like any other director, I imagined the scene in my mind,\u201d said Tar\u0131m. \u201cI wanted a close shot for the kissing scene. I dreamed of a purple quilt for the bridal room. While the groom is kissing the bride, I used mise-en-scene to express that it is a dream scene.\u201d<\/p>\n
The young director said he shot the scene with the stage director and gave orders to artists by megaphone, adding that he worked on the details of all the scenes when the filming was done. \u201cThis film is the result of teamwork,\u201d said Tar\u0131m. \u201cIf viewers come to the movie theater without knowing anything, they won\u2019t even know this dream scene was created by a blind director.\u201d<\/p>\n
Childhood of adversity<\/p>\n
Tar\u0131m was born in a village in the Central Anatolian city of Eski\u015fehir and said he was blind from birth. \u201cI could not see and was banned from going outside the borders of my village. I felt like I was surrounded by borders. I realized that other lives and other worlds existed when I listened to the radio. Because I was blind, my family thought I needed care \u2013 they were even against my dream of studying at university.\u201d<\/p>\n
His family prevented him from becoming an individual because they were proactive of him. \u201cThe logic of the state and of a father is the same in Turkey. When I decided to pursue a university education, I did not share this decision with anyone, because they could have said I was blind and could have tried to persuade me to give up.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tar\u0131m said he was interested in everything visual since he could not see and it was like an action versus reaction. \u201cSome people push their strong sides while some push their weak sides,\u201d he said. \u201cI was listening to football matches on the radio and I imagined the play in my mind.\u201d<\/p>\n
Tar\u0131m said he received a proposal from another cinema film project during the filming of \u201cEntelk\u00f6y \u2013 Efek\u00f6y.\u201d Showing a strong reaction against all of his negative experiences, Tar\u0131m said: \u201cI can\u2019t see, but all of my other senses are open. I hear the voice of ugliness. I can smell it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The film features the struggle of the Aegean village of Efek\u00f6y against the proposed building of a power plant. It is scheduled to be released in the beginning of 2012. The film\u2019s cast also includes German Greens Party Co-Chairman Claudia Roth and former State Minister Y\u00fcksel Yalova.<\/p>\n
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