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Night Journey
(Gece yolculugu)

Screening on Film
Directed by Ömer Kavur.
With Aytac Arman, Macit Koper, Zuhal Olcay.
Turkey, 1987, 35mm, color, 98 min.
Turkish with English subtitles.

In this enigmatic work, a director settles in a ghost town to rewrite his script, and the audience enters into the mystical realm of his past and imagination. Kavur’s film is a seamless collage of thought, memory, and landscape reminiscent of Giorgio de Chirico’s psychic terrains. By the film’s ambiguous end we can not help wondering how much Night Journey is about Kavur himself and, like Fellini in 8 1/2 before him, how much he is embracing it all.

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