When looking through the listings of what was playing/streaming at the online Glasgow Film Festival, this was the very first one I ordered, thanks to "Turkish Steampunk" sounding like such a enticing creation,leading me to look into the shadows.
View on the film:
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, writer/director Erdem Tepegoz & cinematographer Hayk Kirakosyan stylishly get the audience to dig their hands into the dirt of the Steampunk dystopia where the miners work as cameras of a unseen eye watch over them.
Cut off from the rest of the world, Tepegoz lines the wall with a thick lime green, which is chipped away by panning shots towards the rusting machinery which Zait wants to rise up from working.
Ignoring mutterings from all those around him to just continue being a worker drone who does not cause trouble, Numan Acar gives a terrific performance as the ragged Zait,who Acar has scratch with a increase urgency at all the things in the workplace he suspects to be false.
Eyeing 1984 with a anonymous voice behind the cameras telling Zait to get back to work, the screenplay by Tepegoz plugs sharp allegorical commentary into the dystopia from a society of workers who never question the voice of those from above demanding they continue to be a working cog in the machine,until Zait decides to shine a light in the shadows.
View on the film:
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day, writer/director Erdem Tepegoz & cinematographer Hayk Kirakosyan stylishly get the audience to dig their hands into the dirt of the Steampunk dystopia where the miners work as cameras of a unseen eye watch over them.
Cut off from the rest of the world, Tepegoz lines the wall with a thick lime green, which is chipped away by panning shots towards the rusting machinery which Zait wants to rise up from working.
Ignoring mutterings from all those around him to just continue being a worker drone who does not cause trouble, Numan Acar gives a terrific performance as the ragged Zait,who Acar has scratch with a increase urgency at all the things in the workplace he suspects to be false.
Eyeing 1984 with a anonymous voice behind the cameras telling Zait to get back to work, the screenplay by Tepegoz plugs sharp allegorical commentary into the dystopia from a society of workers who never question the voice of those from above demanding they continue to be a working cog in the machine,until Zait decides to shine a light in the shadows.
