nor any memories of the turning backs, 15min., Turkey
Directed by Ahmet Mete Balyan, Zeynep Su Topal
[poem_body_memory_voice]
none of them belong to each other and all of them belong to themselves an accumulation over the years// a practice of relating** on love, migration and mourning

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Answers from Ahmet Mete Balyan and Zeynep Su Topal:

1. What motivated you to make this film?

I think our main motivation is to bring together and make visible the materials and experiences we've collected over the years from different disciplines, which have been just sitting there on their own. From this coming together, seeing something that feels unique to us ended up shaping both the process and the outcome.

2. From the idea to the finished product, how long did it take for you to make this film?

This film is made up of materials from 4 years, including poetry, music, performances, installations, sound designs, unfinished projects, countries, cities, neighborhoods, and hundreds of independent videos. The process started on its own about a year and a half ago with the way the first two videos spoke to each other, and it's grown into what it is now. So I guess making this film took about 4 years. or a year. :p

3. How would you describe your film in two words!?

grief and joy.

4. What was the biggest obstacle you faced in completing this film?

outside of the stereotypical production problems - and in fact the most internal - the main obstacle was ourselves. In this atmosphere, it was often difficult for us to find the motivation to make what is not, become.

5. What were your initial reactions when watching the audience talking about your film in the feedback video?

The idea of people from the other side of the world are watching and experiencing the film we've made, feels like madness on its own. I'd love to be in the place of an audience that watched without subtitles :) I wonder what they saw, what they heard, and how they felt...

6. When did you realize that you wanted to make films?

we both have personal and undateable moments that we decided to present ourselves with cinema and gaze at life with camera. but our artistic partnership started when we shot the first video for the movie 'for no reason'.

7. What film have you seen the most in your life?

mete: i don't know? I guess maybe wings of desire? i don't know.
zeynep:

8. What other elements of the festival experience can we and other festivals implement to satisfy you and help you further your filmmaking career?

more accurate visibility and presence for the artist and project. more diverse mediation between the audience and the filmmakers.

9. You submitted to the festival via FilmFreeway. How has your experiences been working on the festival platform site?

I think it was very useful and user friendly platform.

10. What is your favorite meal?

aahahahahahh maybe lahmacun can be our middle point.

11. What is next for you? A new film?

I think we both want to find a new method for ourselves to make a movie or performance that will be more artist friendly yet no loss from the authentic and powerful effect of it.