Meteors

Meteorlar

20th TDF: Greek premiere

A sloppy, elusive camera records things, people and landscapes, visualizing different of disappearance: of memory, of things, of being. Through an ingenious composition of live-streaming videos that capture the harsh reality of South-Eastern Turkey) with political commentary and lyrical shots that render Nature the protagonist of all human drama, the director creates the cosmology of contemporary totalitarianism.

Screening Schedule

No physical screenings scheduled.

Direction: Gürcan Keltek

Cinematography: Mustafa Sen, Fırat Gürgen

Editing: Fazilet Onat

Sound: Paul Olivier, Sebastien Teller

Production: 29P FILMS BV

Producers: Marc Van Goethem, Gürcan Keltek

Narration: Ebru Ojen

Format: DCP

Color: B&W

Production Country: Netherlands, Turkey

Production Year: 2017

Duration: 84'

Contact: Heretic Outreach, ioanna@heretic.gr

Awards/Distinctions: Art Peace Hotel Award – Locarno IFF 2017 Best Documentary – Bratislava IFF 2017

Gürcan Keltek

Born in Izmir, Gürcan Keltek studied film at Dokuz Eylül University before directing several shorts including Overtime (2012), screened at Visions Du Réel. His medium- length film Colony (2015) was screened at FIDMarseille. His first feature film Meteorlar (2017) won more than twenty awards including First Feature Film Award and Boccolino d’Oro Film Critics’ Award at Locarno Film Festival. It was screened at many international film festivals including Rotterdam, BAFICI, Viennale, Bordeaux, Fajr, Hong Kong and the Film Society of Lincoln Center's Art of the Real. Gulyabani (2018) premiered at Signs of Life of Locarno Festival and was screened at Tate Modern, Reykjavik, Rotterdam, and Viennale. New Dawn Fades, premiering in Locarno International Competition, is his first fiction film.