Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Nuri Bilge Ceylan ( born January 26, 1959 in Istanbul) is a Turkish film director, screenwriter, film producer and photographer. He is regarded as an auteur, belong to its stylistic mark long shots with carefully composed picture compositions, little superficial action and economical dialogue. The films of the present internationally famous Turkish director are regularly represented at the Festival of Cannes.
Training
Nuri Bilge Ceylan was born in Istanbul and moved at the age of two years in the province of Çanakkale, in the north-west Turkey, before he returned to his native city with ten years. Ceylan studied at Boğaziçi University Electrical and decided after a trip to the Himalayas to pursue a military career. One and a half years he served in an army corps in Anatolia and passed the time reading. To his reading included the autobiography of Roman Polanski, the drive to him after reading to pursue a future as a filmmaker. Ceylan later studied in Istanbul and London film studies.
Style
Ceylan inhibits identification of the audience with the characters by making them often unsympathetic. Thus, the audience is more receptive to the visual and sound environment. His films have made little action in the traditional sense, instead he uses small details of everyday life on. The films contain at least until three monkeys little dialogues; the director attaches them in value because we constantly lie in real life and let express yourself much more by facial expressions and gestures. Embed figures in landscapes and weather patterns bring a film a " cosmic dimension ". Therefore, he may the paintings of Caspar David Friedrich very. The literature had on his filmmaking a greater impact than the movies because they have a longer history and stronger appeal to the imagination. In particular, the Russian literature and Anton Chekhov are important to him, he was wearing Chekhov's stories as feeling around with you. Strongly influenced he believes that the Russians especially with regard to the combination of humor with the tragic.
Very often his films with those of Michelangelo Antonioni are compared to some, he is regarded as the successor of the Italian excellence. Another reference value is often called the Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami, he with the style of the " time - image " shares, as defined by Gilles Deleuze. Accordingly Ceylan's characters are more busy to look at their environment - and through them the audience - to act as active. However, the opinion is expressed that he not add anything new film language.
Operation
Often Ceylan occupied roles with relatives and friends, such as his mother worked in the first four films. The reason he gives to the great intimacy that makes it unnecessary to say many words. A recurring actor in his early work is Muzaffer Özdemir, Mehmet Emin Toprak also his cousin until he died in a traffic accident in 2002. Even his mother and his father were seen in several works.
He declared himself worried about the direction the einschlage the cinema. You reach for all sorts of tactics and measures to attract the audience, while the author would lose his honesty and the film its power of persuasion. The fact that the film production requires a lot of resources and people, says Ceylan, create great pressure on the filmmakers and vandalize their independence; because he envies the literature. To escape, he prefers to work with small budgets, especially as he sees minimalism as a kind of resistance against the excesses of consumerism and the present. This allows him full control over his projects, which he performs with a small staff: In his first feature film The City of staff, Ceylan was included, for two persons, with the next two films of four or five people. However, the staff grew in seasons in which Ceylan was also performer at 14 people, and at Once Upon a Time in Anatolia was the team, cranes and wind machines mitführte, from an entire convoy of vehicles.
Work
1995 to 2002
His debut as a director and Ceylan celebrated in 1995 with the short film Koza, who competed in the competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 1995 for the Golden Palm.
The first three feature films Ceylan will look back referred to as a trilogy because they are very similar formally and thematically. The autobiographical dramas address the differences between country and city life, escape from home and returning home. The first of these three films is the city. The told from the perspective of a child, everyday life and growing up in the Turkish province. This Ceylan been successful with critics and the city was awarded a prize at the Berlinale in 1998, among other things, the Tokyo International Film Festival and the Film Festival of Istanbul. Could follow up on the Turkish filmmakers a year later with distress in May. In this film, an alter ego of Ceylan returns to Anatolia back to his hometown in order to realize a film project with his family members. Distress in May won a number of international film and festival awards, including the FIPRESCI Prize at the award ceremony of the European Film Awards 2000 and the awards from the Film Festival of Angers, Ankara, Antalya, Istanbul and Bergamo.
The international breakthrough as a director Ceylan achieved in 2002 by the renewed collaboration with Muzaffer Özdemir and Mehmet Emin Toprak his cousin in the drama Uzak - Far (2002), the last part of his trilogy. Here Özdemir acts again as the " alter ego of the director ," as a once artistically ambitious photographer, who now earns his living with publicity photos. The visit of a young relative of the province confronted him with the inadequacy of his life and plunges him into an existential crisis. The relative of his hand, his dream of finding a job in the Turkish city do not realize. Uzak - Wide celebrated its premiere in Turkey at the end of 2002 and was represented almost five months later, in competition at the Cannes Film Festival in 2003, where he stood in the favor of critics. The work was rewarded with the second most important award, the Grand Jury Prize. As first and only Turkish players, the two main characters were together the prize for the best actor of the film festival. In 2004, production has been selected as the official Turkish contribution to a nomination at the 76th Academy Awards in the category Best Foreign Language Film, but was not among the five nominated films later. Even in Germany, where the film was released only three years after its formation, Uzak received - wide positive reviews.
From 2006
Due to the success Nuri Bilge Ceylan, of his fellow colleagues Zeki Demirkubuz ( YAZGI, 2001) and Reha Erdem ( Beş Vakit, 2006) has now speak of a renaissance in Turkish cinema, though Ceylan denies this and the rising popularity of Turkish artists with the Nobel Prize award Orhan Pamuk's justified. With the fourth film seasons - İklimler (2006) Ceylan left the issue of belonging and home. It tells the story of the disintegration of a relationship. Here the Turk came not only as a director, screenwriter and film producer in appearance, but also celebrated in the male lead his acting debut, while his wife Ebru took over the lead female role. Again, the director was with in the competition of the 59th Cannes Film Festival. Seasons - İklimler brought Ceylan 2006 FIPRESCI Prize at Cannes and the director award at the Film Festival of Antalya one. Despite the praise he did not want to act as an actor before the camera and also rejected the director and the lead role for a film biography of his famous compatriot Yılmaz Güney politely.
2008 Ceylan was again represented by three monkeys in competition at the 61st Cannes Film Festival. This is about a family that is in crisis because of the silence and repression of father, mother and son. Three monkeys received the Best Director Award. Months later, the film was selected as the official Turkish contribution to the nomination for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards in 2009, but did not get one of the five final nominees. 2009 Ceylan was appointed to the jury of the 62nd International Film Festival of Cannes. Two years later he was awarded with Once Upon a Time in Anatolia (2011) his fourth invitation to the film festival and won for the second time the Grand Jury Prize. A year later, a nomination for the European Film Award for Best Director.
In addition to filmmaking Ceylan occurs also successful as a photographer in appearance. His paintings were exhibited, among others, in Istanbul, Thessaloniki, Granada and London's National Theatre. 2005 Ceylan was part of the jury of the 42nd Film Festival in Antalya, who chose Ahmet Ulucays tragicomedy ships from watermelons for best film.