Director: Furkan Karabay
Turkey, 2020, 25’
Turkish with English subtitles
The thermal power plant in Tunçbilek district of Kütahya negatively affects people's lives. Because of the thermal power plant located in the very center of the city; people suffer from cancer, shortness of breath, especially children and the elderly are constantly getting sick. Smoke entering people's workplaces and homes when they work is the main cause of illness. 70-year-old Nuriye Türk, one of the people most affected by this situation, is constantly trying to make her voice heard. Nuriye Türk, who has cancer, does not want to escape from this place where she spent most of her life, but to live here happily as before. Mustafa Özyurt, President of Tavşanlı Environmental Platform, also lives in Tunçbilek. They try to make their voices heard with the scientific studies they do. Environmental NGOs constantly express how harmful the unfiltered chimney is to nature and therefore to human beings. Nobody in the town wants the power plant to close. They want the filter to be stuck on and keep people working there. In the fresh air where they can see the sky…
Giorgio de Chirico was born on July 10, 1888, in Volos, Greece, to an Italian family. His mother, Gemma Cervetto, was from a family of Genoa origin, but most likely she was born in Izmir. His father, Evaristo, was born on June 21, 1841 in the Büyükdere district of Istanbul.
Inspired by the exhibition And Now the Good News, which focusing on the relationship between mass media and art, we prepared horoscope readings based on the chapters of the exhibition. Using the popular astrological language inspired by the effects of the movements of celestial bodies on people, these readings with references to the works in the exhibition make fictional future predictions inspired by the horoscope columns that we read in the newspapers with the desire to receive good news about our day.
In 1493, exactly 500 years ago, Leonardo da Vinci was finishing the preparations for casting the equestrian monument (4 times life size), which Ludovico il Moro, Duke of Milan commissioned in memory of his father some 12 years earlier.
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