Archaeology, Arts & Culture, Memory and roots, Turquie

Kazarken
Kazarken - As We Dig

Güldem Durmaz, Belgium France, 2016, HDV, Format diffusion : 1.77 (HDV 16:9), 90 minutes

A woman of Turkish ascent, following ancient anatolian healing rites, dreams her way through fragments of memory, both personal and collective.
She is guided by a mythological character, Kheiron the Centaur, into a form of savage psychoanalysis.
An experiment in dislocated space and time, opening up passages between worlds, her quest takes her back to her mother's village, whose entire Armenian population vanished in 1915 – but also to the ruins of an ancient Roman hospital, where sacred waters and oneiric visions were once the keys to healing.
Exploring memory as a place of struggle against oblivion and the violences of hidden history, Kazarken, haunted by voices both real and fantasized, is also a journey towards an ancient way of thinking – an invitation to modify and expand the way we perceive the world, to help us break free from inherited curses...

Music score written by Fred Costa

Directed by: Güldem Durmaz
Screenplay: Güldem Durmaz, Simon Backès
Photography: Güldem Durmaz, Simon Backès, Piet Eekman, Bernard Verstraete
Sound: Valentin Mazingarbe - Music by Fred Costa
Image editing: Simon Backès, Güldem Durmaz
Sound editing: Emmanuel de Boissieu
Mixing: Emmanuel de Boissieu
Languages: FR, TR
Subtitles: FR, EN
Available formats: DCP, Digital
With: Denis Lavant, Güldem Durmaz, Martin Selze, Marie-Sohna Condé
Production: A nous 2
Coproduction: CBA, ALEA JACTA, ATOPIC (Paris), Stempel Films
Coproduction workshop: CBA
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Festival selections:
Torino International Film Festival, Italy 2016
Festival International du Cinéma Méditerranéen de Tetouan, Morocco 2017
Sguardi Altrove Film Festival, Milano, Italy 2017
Millenium International Documentary Film Festival, Bruxelles, Belgium 2017
33e Rencontres Cinema Gindou, France 2017
Comptoir du Doc / Programmation Hors Format - Parcheminerie, Rennes, France 2017
Filmer à Tout Prix / Panorama belge, Bruxelles, Belgium 2017
GZDOC - Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival, China 2017
Dhaka International Film Festival, Bangladesh 2018
36° Festival Cinematográfico Internacional de Cinemateca del Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay 2018
L'Europe autour de l'Europe - Evropa Film Akt, Paris, France 2018
Festival des Cinémas de Turquie, Paris, France 2018
Cimatheque Cairo, Cairo, Egypt 2018