26 Apr 2018
Meteors is a patchwork of those audiovisual fragments, along with Keltek's own footage shot on disintegrating streets, recording unflattering yet important testimonies. - Screen Anarchy
This screening is a UK premiere
Join us for a Q&A with director Gürcan Ketlek following the screening, hosted by Isabel Stevens, Production Editor at Sight & Sound
At night, in a Kurdish town in eastern Turkey, meteors start to fall. Stepping out of their homes to look, the city's inhabitants encounter fragments of the past and remember those who have been lost. In this environment, the tracing of absences becomes both an imaginative and a political act; the impact of the violence which has scarred the area has been erased from official records, leaving memories and stories to fill the gaps.
Focusing on the troubled history of this conflict-stricken area, Meteors deftly interweaves its cosmological framework with astute political commentary, exploring the ethics of how we remember the stories, places and voices which have disappeared.
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Meteors (Meteorlar), dir. Gürcan Ketlek, Netherlands/Turkey 2017, 84 mins, Kurdish/Turkish with English subtitles
Frames of Representation (FoR): New Visions for Cinema 2018 is presented in academic partnership with CHASE (Consortium for the Arts and Humanities South-East England)
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