Spaces of Love and Death in Halit Refig Movies
Prepared by: Halit Refig, Neslihan SIK Glosset
Love and death...
These two inseparable concepts are the subject of this exhibition of the Virtual Museum of Architecture, with their different faces at different times and their different connotations in different spaces.
In the scenes that Halit Refig has chosen from his unforgettable movies, we meet love and death sometimes on a rooftop overlooking Istanbul, sometimes in an old wooden house, sometimes on the public square of a little town or in the courtyard of a prison. We do not always feel better reaching a square after narrow streets or going out in a courtyard after dark corridors; a modern house, designed to stimulate happy dreams might carry different meanings or an old, wooden house can be the subject of a deep love.
Although we have already adapted our senses to ‘out of scale’ cityscapes, through the eye of Halit Refig, we remember that there is a time... and there are spaces for love and death: the spaces of cinema narrating the motion that are perceived through motion.
For more information see Fatos Adiloglu, "Sinemada Mimari Acilimlar: Halit Refig Filmleri", Es Yayinlari, 2005, Istanbul
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Gurbet Kuslari [Expelled Birds] (1964)
Even the cities that we have not seen yet have their place in our memories with their silhouettes, panoramic images or important buildings. We add the feelings they awake in us to their photographic or filmic images in order to contrast in an unknown future with what we will see for real.
This film narrates ...
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Kirik Hayatlar [Broken Lives] (1965)
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Hanim [Lady] (1989)
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Vurun Kahpeye [Beat the Slut] (1973)
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The...
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Karilar Kogusu [Women's Ward] (1989)
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Women’s Ward is adapted ...
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