Asta Nielsen was the greatest actress of the silent film era. She was hugely famous too, one of the first international film stars. Audiences around the adored her as an icon of glamour, modernity, sophistication, culture and androgyny. But it is very easy to say...
Interview with S. Buse Yildirim Kundura Cinema Could you tell us a bit more about Kundura Cinema’s mission? How do you position Kundura Cinema in the context of cinema culture in Turkey and beyond? Kundura Cinema is part of a cultural placemaking project. It is located at the...
Kundura Memory Project, which launched in 2015 with cooperation of the History Foundation and has been growing to today, centers on the oral history studies of Beykoz Shoe [Kundura] Factory shaped by the collected memories of nearly 200 former endeavored workers and their families. It...
How did you first come across the footage and photographs from Ella Maillart’s journey to India? How did you decide to make a film out of the material?Twenty years ago I was doing film restoration projects in Switzerland. I was not too familiar with Ella...
Two of your films are being screened in Kinoscope and Kundura Sinema’s program called ‘Rüyanın Öte Yakası’. Afternoon Clouds is shot on film. It has a beautiful widescreen cinematography that relies on color paintings and mise-en-scène. On the other hand, And What Is the Summer...
We mostly think of robots as work machines, as efficient and precise executors of tasks. In German industry, they barely look like people, to avoid emotional complications. Unlike in Asia, where humanoid robots have already been developed for some time, for example for care-work or...
The guest of the online program of Kundura Stage (Kundura Sahne located in Istanbul, at the Beykoz Kundura) is Stefan Kaegi, one of the founders of Rimini Protokoll which is one of the important art collectives of the European Theater. The guests of his project...
The award-winning documentary "Overseas" by South Korean director and artist Sung-A Yoon, which premiered in Turkey at Kundurama, tells the stories of Filipino female workers overseas and what happened in a center where Filipino women forced into nomadic housework were 'trained to be maids'.Sung-A Yoon,...
Kundura Cinema’s online screening platform Kundurama published the 14-hour documentary "Women Make Movies: New Road Movie Through Cinema" and in petto to the film’s meeting with the Turkish audience, Kundura Blog brings you the striking talk with the acknowledged director Mark Cousins!The director and film...
by Scout Tafoya In just seven short films — including the recently lauded “Fox” (2016), “Hiwa” (2017), and “Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018)” — Jacqueline Lentzou has already made her aesthetic concerns and immutable talent quite clear. She finds, with a curious and empathetic camera, moments of...