The Films Of Şahin Kaygun December 25–28, 2014

In conjunction with the exhibition “Şahin Kaygun”, Istanbul Modern Cinema presents a program of six films which bear the marks of Kaygun’s artistic and personal world. Cinematographic narrative is strongly felt in the photographs of Şahin Kaygun, who also reflected his artistic versatility in the movie scene, which he called “the point where all arts meet most intensely”. Kaygun wrote scripts in the Turkey of the 1980s before he started directing films of his own. He was the art director of successful films such as “A Widow”, “Vasfiye is Her Name”, “Oh, Belinda!”, and “Motherland Hotel”. Through these films he brought a new plastic approach to cinema in Turkey in terms of aesthetics and form. From the images in the films to the photographic power of the sequences, the impress of Kaygun’s artistic personality is even more strongly felt in Full Moon, the film he directed in 1987. About Şahin Kaygun, Burçak Evren said “In a period where cinema in Turkey has been more verbal than necessary, he has succeeded in transcending the ordinary by using the language of the image”.