The Balcony and Our Dreams
14 min., Turkey, 2020
Director
Aylin Kuryel
Production
Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema
Editing
Aylin Kuryel
Sound mix
Fırat Yücel
Even though ‘life fits in a house’, dreams don’t. They draw power from our recent past and worries, reaching beyond the limits of “reality”. Aylin Kuryel collected dreams about mandatory military service in her short documentary Dreams of Military Service (2017). In this film, she is offering a selection of dreams that are dreamt during the corona virus outbreak. The longings, worries and desires that have been quarantined in the depths of mind come to the surface and interfuse with sounds, music, applauses and protests from the streets. Dreams permeate reality, and reality pervade dreams...
The full movie, available on Altyazı Fasikül’s Youtube channel.
Screenings
- 24th Flying Broom International Women's Film Festival, Short Wave Section, 2021
- 3rd Başka Sinema Ayvalık Film Festival, Turkish Cinema 2020-2021 Section, 2021
- Istanbul Modern Cinema, Future Short Program, 2022
Interviews
- Video: Aylin Kuryel ile Balkon ve Bizim Rüyalar Üzerine, Senem Aytaç, Altyazı Fasikül, 2 Haziran 2020 (In Turkish)
- Video: Uçan Süpürge Söyleşi, Azize Tan, Uçan Süpürge, 8 Haziran 2021 (In Turkish)
- Video: Oğlago, Balkon ve Bizim Rüyalar – Film Ekipleriyle Söyleşi, Müge Turan, İstanbul Modern Sanat Müzesi, 3 Mart 2022 (In Turkish)