BLOCK C

BLOCK C (C BLOK ), 1994

Turkey | Digital Betacam, Color, 90’ | Turkish

Cast: Serap Aksoy, Zühal Gencer, Fikret Kuşkan, Selçuk Yöntem, Ülkü Duru, Feridun Koç

Tulay, whose unhappy marriage is disintegrating, lives in a modern apartment complex. Halit, an employee of the complex, spies on Tulay and watches her every move. One evening, when Tulay returns home, she witnesses her maid Aslı and Halit making love in her bed. This moment would be the beginning of an unconscious search for Tulay, whose daily life gradually mixes with her perceptions and fears.

“The atmosphere in Block C is reminiscent of the films of Kieslowski, which portray how civilization corrupts the human soul. We can say that the visual and contextual aspects especially of Kieslowski’s masterpiece A Short Film About Love are manifest in this film. While Zeki Demirkubuz’s later works will by far surpass his performance in Block C, in this film he hints without much restriction at the seeds from which his cinema has grown.” –Murat Özer