Full of Tarkovskian atmospherics and featuring the inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home – pranksters, historians, artists and would-be Casanovas. A T/F Work-In-Progress Screening.
Director: Shevaun Mizrahi
Runtime: 1:20
In-person: dir. Shevaun Mizrahi and co-producer & editor Shelly Grizim
Fest Year: 2017
This haunted reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents bask in the camera’s attention. A creaky-voiced woman confides her personal account of the Armenian genocide. A sweetly deluded pianist performs a composition before confessing his love. A blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own camera back at us. Shevaun Mizrahi’s playful, immaculately controlled film finds hypnotizing rhythms in the residents’ limbo-like state. Meanwhile, outside this strange and secluded space, ominous construction equipment transforms the landscape. (CB) A T/F Work-In-Progress Screening