{"id":1193,"date":"2010-10-18T18:17:22","date_gmt":"2010-10-18T15:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selimgunes.com\/?p=1193\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T08:26:36","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T05:26:36","slug":"zamansiz-eser-jeanne-inness-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/zamansiz-eser-jeanne-inness-chicago\/","title":{"rendered":"Timeless work called ‘White as Snow’ \/ O zamans\u0131z eser \u2018Kar Beyaz\u2019 \/ Jeanne Inness"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicago, 2010.10.18<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Timeless work called ‘White as Snow’<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

It is October 18, 2010 in Chicago and the green leaves in the park have changed from green to red, yellow and shades of green. Soon there will be snow.<\/span><\/p>\n

And, my favorite film from this year’s film festival is a Turkish visual, timeless work called ‘WHITE AS SNOW’. I love this film because it needs no words and even the characters’ actions are instigated not by language but by feelings, visions, and their sensing from nature what they must do next.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is about a boy who trudges down a snowy path to a way station to try to sell passersby a yogurt drink to make enough to get some bread to feed his two younger siblings. His father is in jail for political injustice and his mother has to work for a mean old rich woman and can return to their mountain home once a week.<\/span><\/p>\n

The wolves are howling and a white horse with a red gash on his left hip is seen running widely. The boy stays at his post late, trying to earn few coins and when he starts for home, it gets dark and the wolves are looking for dinner. Will the mother or either of the two men who start up the steep path reach Hasan in time?<\/span><\/p>\n

But the real story is in the visuals of bare trees, the snow, the mountains, the clouds, the wind and evergreen clumps. The nature is so beautiful and yet can be so treacherous.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love these kind of films, not only because they are the purest forms of cinematography but because of my own history growing up in the country of the central USA. My fondest memories are of the green shoots in spring, planting corn with my father, riding on top of the summer hay rack to bring home the load of loose alfalfa to swing up into the loft of the big barn for the cows winter feed, and then fall harvest of everything from potatoes to squash and beets. Then came the first cleansing, light fluffy snows. But there was also the trepidation, the fears, of a wind or hail ruining the whole year’s crop, of a tornado taking every thing, and may be us too,away, of the coyotes howling in the early morning and at dusk. I still love the sound of coyotes because I suppose I knew my father had a shotgun and rifle in the basement landing and would protect me from them. So even today when I hear them talking to each other in their yipping language, i just say, “Did you get a big rabbit for supper?”. But the big white wolf in the Turkish film may be a meaner beast, especially if a horse has ben attacked. My horses have known since their youth how to kick and outrun a coyote, the smaller American dog cousin of wild wolves.<\/span><\/p>\n

But it was not always so safe on the prairies of the Midwest, USA. Willa Cather tells in one of her stories in the early 20th century or may be late 19th how a bride and a groom, leaving their wedding party late at night in a horse-drawn sleigh, are attacked and killed by wolves. This is a legend we carry with us and teaches us that nature is not the paradise that modern picture-taking tourist or ecologists understand.<\/span><\/p>\n

‘White as Snow’ can mean pure as in the saying ‘pure as the driven snow’ or white as snow can imply coldness and freezing to death as those of us who flee to the south each winter know and are called snowbirds. The birds do know.<\/span><\/p>\n

The film ‘White as Snow’ should have been categorized by the festival not only under family drama, but also nature and Mystical. For it is the mystical two-sided part of nature that these lovely characters must contend with in their struggle to survive in the wild.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u015eikago, 2010.10.18<\/strong><\/p>\n

O zamans\u0131z eser \u2018Kar Beyaz\u2019<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

G\u00fcnlerden 18 Ekim 2010. \u015eikago\u2019day\u0131z. Parktaki bitki ve a\u011fa\u00e7lar\u0131n rengi ye\u015filden k\u0131rm\u0131z\u0131ya, sar\u0131dan ye\u015filin g\u00f6lgelerine d\u00f6nm\u00fc\u015f. Yak\u0131nda kar ya\u011facak…<\/p>\n

Bu y\u0131lki film festivalinde en sevdi\u011fim film, \u201cKar Beyaz\u201d adl\u0131 T\u00fcrk yap\u0131m\u0131 bir film. O zamans\u0131z bir eser. Bu filmi sevmemin nedeni kelimelere ihtiya\u00e7 duymamas\u0131. Karakterlerin eylemlerini diyaloglar yerine duygular ve g\u00f6r\u00fcnt\u00fcler ile veriyor olmas\u0131. Sonraki ad\u0131mlar\u0131 ise do\u011fadan alg\u0131lad\u0131klar\u0131 ile tetikleniyor.<\/p>\n

Film, bir dura\u011fa do\u011fru a\u011f\u0131r ve zahmetli ad\u0131mlarla ilerleyen, ayran satarak iki k\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck karde\u015fini doyurmak i\u00e7in gayret eden bir \u00e7ocu\u011fu (Hasan) anlat\u0131yor. Hasan\u2019\u0131n babas\u0131 siyasi bir haks\u0131zl\u0131k nedeniyle tutuklanm\u0131\u015f; annesi ise zengin ve ya\u015fl\u0131 bir kad\u0131n i\u00e7in \u00e7al\u0131\u015fmak zorunda oldu\u011fundan haftada ancak bir defa da\u011fdaki evlerine gelebiliyor.<\/p>\n

Kurtlar uluyor… Yaral\u0131 beyaz bir at\u0131n geni\u015f kadrajda ko\u015fu\u015fu g\u00f6r\u00fcl\u00fcyor… Hasan ge\u00e7 saatlere kadar bekliyor… Ve Hasan eve d\u00f6nerken, karanl\u0131k bas\u0131yor ve a\u00e7 kurtlar av pe\u015fine d\u00fc\u015f\u00fcyor… Anne, Kadir Dede veya Recep. Onlardan biri dik yoku\u015fu \u00e7\u0131k\u0131p zaman\u0131nda Hasan\u2019a ula\u015fabilecek mi?<\/p>\n

Asl\u0131nda hik\u00e2ye kar\u0131n, da\u011flar\u0131n, bulutlar\u0131n, r\u00fczgar\u0131n ve k\u0131\u015f\u0131n yapraklar\u0131n\u0131 d\u00f6kmeyen a\u011fa\u00e7lar\u0131n yal\u0131n g\u00f6r\u00fcnt\u00fcleriyle aktar\u0131l\u0131yor. Do\u011fa \u00e7ok g\u00fczel oldu\u011fu gibi bir o kadar da tehlikeler ile dolu…<\/p>\n

Ben bu t\u00fcr filmleri seviyorum; ama sadece sinematografinin en sade bi\u00e7imi olduklar\u0131 i\u00e7in de\u011fil, ABD\u2019nin orta b\u00f6lgelerinde ge\u00e7irdi\u011fim \u00e7ocuklu\u011fumdan kaynaklan\u0131yor. O d\u00f6nemden kalan en g\u00fczel hat\u0131ralar\u0131m\u0131n aras\u0131nda akl\u0131ma, baharda ye\u015feren filizler, babamla m\u0131s\u0131r eki\u015fimiz, yaz aylar\u0131nda bi\u00e7ilmi\u015f saman balyalar\u0131n\u0131n \u00fczerindeki yolculu\u011fum, toplanan yoncalar\u0131 eve g\u00f6t\u00fcrmek, k\u0131\u015f aylar\u0131nda ineklerimizi beslemek i\u00e7in ah\u0131ra balyalar\u0131 ve yoncalar\u0131 y\u0131\u011f\u0131\u015f\u0131m\u0131z, sonbaharda patatesten bal kaba\u011f\u0131na ve \u015feker pancar\u0131na kadar her \u015feyi toplay\u0131\u015f\u0131m\u0131z gelir. Sonra o temiz ve hafif\u00e7e lapa lapa ya\u011fan ilk kar. Ancak hat\u0131ralar\u0131m aras\u0131nda, r\u00fczgar ve bir sa\u011fanak ya\u011f\u0131\u015f\u0131n b\u00fct\u00fcn bir y\u0131l\u0131n hasat\u0131n\u0131 yok etme endi\u015fesi, \u015fiddetli bir f\u0131rt\u0131nan\u0131n her \u015feyi ve hatta bizi yerle bir etme ihtimali, sabah\u0131n ilk saatlerinde ve alacakaranl\u0131kta \u00e7akallar\u0131n ulumas\u0131 da vard\u0131r. Ben hala daha \u00e7akallar\u0131n sesini severim, muhtemelen bu rahatl\u0131\u011f\u0131m\u0131n nedeni babam\u0131n bir tabancas\u0131 ve bodruma inen b\u00f6l\u00fcmdeki t\u00fcfe\u011fiyle beni onlardan kurtarabilecek olmas\u0131n\u0131 bilmemdir. Hatta bug\u00fcn bile, \u00e7akallar\u0131n \u00e7\u0131\u011fl\u0131k atar gibi \u00e7\u0131kard\u0131klar\u0131 seslerini duydu\u011fumda onlara \u201cYeme\u011fe b\u00fcy\u00fck bir tav\u015fan yakalad\u0131n m\u0131?\u201d diye sorar\u0131m. Ancak T\u00fcrk yap\u0131m\u0131 bu filmde kurtlar bir ata sald\u0131rm\u0131\u015f ise, \u00e7ok daha k\u00f6t\u00fc niyetli bir canavar olabilir. Oysa benim atlar\u0131m k\u00fc\u00e7\u00fckl\u00fcklerinden beri, vah\u015fi kurtlar\u0131 ve k\u00fc\u00e7\u00fck Amerikan k\u00f6peklerinin kuzeni olarak kabul edilen bir \u00e7akal\u0131 nas\u0131l tepeceklerini ve onlardan nas\u0131l ka\u00e7acaklar\u0131n\u0131 bilirlerdi.<\/p>\n

Ancak ABD\u2019nin orta bat\u0131 \u00e7ay\u0131rl\u0131klar\u0131 her zaman g\u00fcvenli de\u011fildir. Willa Cather, 19. y\u00fczy\u0131l\u0131n sonlar\u0131na do\u011fru ge\u00e7en hikayelerinin birinde bir gelin ile damad\u0131n, gece d\u00fc\u011f\u00fcnlerinden sonra atl\u0131 k\u0131zakta kurtlar taraf\u0131ndan nas\u0131l sald\u0131r\u0131ya u\u011frayarak \u00f6ld\u00fcr\u00fcld\u00fcklerini anlat\u0131r. Bu i\u00e7imizde ta\u015f\u0131d\u0131\u011f\u0131m\u0131z bir efsanedir ve do\u011fan\u0131n bize foto\u011fraf \u00e7eken turist veya ekolojistlerin anlayaca\u011f\u0131 t\u00fcrden bir cennet olmad\u0131\u011f\u0131n\u0131 \u00f6\u011fretir.<\/p>\n

Kar Beyaz, bembeyaz anlam\u0131na gelece\u011fi gibi kar\u0131n beyaz\u0131 \u00f6l\u00fcm\u00fcn so\u011fuklu\u011fu ve donmay\u0131 da \u00e7a\u011fr\u0131\u015ft\u0131rmaktad\u0131r. Bunu en iyi her y\u0131l k\u0131\u015f\u0131n g\u00fcneye ka\u00e7an ard\u0131\u00e7 ku\u015flar\u0131 bilir.<\/p>\n

\u201cKar Beyaz\u201d adl\u0131 eser festivalde sadece aile dram\u0131 kategorisi alt\u0131nda de\u011fil, ayr\u0131ca do\u011fa ve mistik yap\u0131tlar alt\u0131nda da s\u0131n\u0131fland\u0131r\u0131lmal\u0131yd\u0131; \u00e7\u00fcnk\u00fc bu g\u00fczel karakterler vah\u015fi tabiatta ya\u015fam sava\u015f\u0131 verirken do\u011fan\u0131n o gizemli iki y\u00fcz\u00fc ile kar\u015f\u0131la\u015fmaktad\u0131rlar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chicago, 2010.10.18 Timeless work called ‘White as Snow’ It is October 18, 2010 in Chicago and the green leaves in the park have changed from green to red, yellow and shades of green. Soon there will be snow. And, my favorite film from this year’s film festival is a Turkish visual, timeless work called ‘WHITE […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1193"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3228,"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193\/revisions\/3228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selimgunes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}