KARPUZ KABUGUNDAN GEMILER YAPMAK
BOATS OUT OF WATERMELON RINDS
Boats out of Watermelon Rinds unfurls the story of Recep and Mehmet, two young friends of modest means and admirable ambitions. It is only thanks to their evening exploits that the boys can endure their apprenticeships with, respectively, a watermelon vendor and a domineering barber. After discovering that the small local theater regularly discards worn-out film, the boys have begun collecting and, in their own strange fashion (think wooden-box-and-a-lightbulb), screening these cinematic cast-offs each night in an abandoned shed. They lack a projector, barely understand the mechanical processes involved and have only the village fool, crazy Ömer, as an audience. Nonetheless, they are undaunted. Shot entirely on digital video and blown up to 35mm, Boats out of Watermelon Rinds is lushly painted with inspired plays of colour and a keen eye for landscape; it conjures up a time and place far away, but somehow completely familiar. This is an infatuating, prodigious debut and a stirring tribute to a lifelong love of the cinema. (Dimitri Eipides)
http://www.fipresci.org/festivals/archive/2004/istanbul/ist_jkhomiakova.htm
- Ismail Hakki Taslak - Recep
- Kadir Kaymaz - Mehmet
- Ahmet Uluçay
- Ilker Berke
- Bülent Nurgonul
- Mustafa Presheva
- Senad Presheva
- Ender Akay
- Alper Tunga Demirel
- Pinar Kesen
- Fatos Acar
Silkroad Productions 8 rue Myrha 75018 Paris, Frankreich T 1 53 41 41 61 bh@silkroadproduction.com
