A couple meditate on their long-past relationship while delving deeply into the recesses of the decay of time and memory. Preceded by short “Tension Envelopes”
Director: Burak Çevik
Runtime: 70
Fest Year: 2023
A couple meditate on their long-past relationship while delving deeply into the recesses of the decay of time and memory. Preceded by short “Tension Envelopes”
Long: Greenhouses rust. Lakes look like deserts. A shipyard stands where a prison once operated. Historic cities disappear; modern art museums rise. A couple—long-ago broken up—forget and remember the details of their relationship through heartbreaking voiceovers. In Forms of Forgetting, directed by Burak Çevik, Erdem Şenocak and Nesrin Uçarlar meditate on the ways in which forgetting shapes, misshapes, and decays memories. As Erdem and Nesrin discuss the intricacies of their relationship and breakup, they watch footage of themselves from years before; the wisdom in their present voices is palpable in comparison to their youthful discourse. Watching their past makes way for deeper conversations and experimental observations about historic revelations, dreams of destruction, and construction of the new. As metal corrodes, so also do our perceptions. Elephants may never forget. But we do. (LK) Preceded by short “Tension Envelopes”