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National Documentary Competition

INVISIBLE TO THE EYE
AH GÖZEL İSTANBUL

• Director: Zeynep Dadak
• TURKEY, GERMANY / 2020 / DCP / Colour / 85’ / Turkish; English s.t.

• Screenplay: Zeynep Dadak
• Director of Photography: Florent Herry
• Editing: Eytan İpeker
• Original Music: Erdem Helvacıoğlu
• Katılanlar With: Aykut Sezgi Mengi, Cemal Kafadar
• Producer: Aslı Dadak, Zeynep Dadak, Pınar Bağcı
• Co-Producer: Tanja Georgieva
• Production Co.: Fenafilm
• World Sales: Fenafilm

- 2020 Istanbul Special Mention

Inspired by Istanbul-born 17th century Armenian intellectual Eremya Çelebi Kömürciyan's travel diaries, Invisible to the Eye traces this particular itinerary in today’s Istanbul. As a cinematic travelogue in a contemporary Istanbul, the film explores Kömürciyan’s farsighted relationship with the concepts of looking, seeing, and viewing. In his book History of Istanbul: Istanbul in the Seventeenth Century, Kömürciyan talks to the reader as if he is holding a camera. When we translate his ‘cinematic eye’ to a contemporary setting, there emerges an endless path on to the multifaceted visual history of this long-standing city.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.