In Between – A Noon Time In Istanbul [Arada - İstanbul'da Bir Öğle Vakti]

This short documentary has been shot as part of a long film consisting of 12 short films approaching to each time frame of a day divided into various time frames as dawn, morning, noon, afternoon, sunset and night from the viewpoints of two different cultures, to be shown as part of the cultural exchange program of the Full Frame Documentary Film Festival 2005.

In-between – A Noon Time in Istanbul is one of the 12 short films made by 6 documentary filmmakers from Turkey and the United States on the “time”. The subject is the noon time. In Istanbul, where two continents meet, passing from Europe to Asia takes 10 minutes, the sun clock showing the prayer times and the modern clock showing the business hours exist together.

The film has adopted a viewpoint making abstraction over a noon time in the cosmopolite Istanbul and over the time itself from an angle of cultural background where two times, one being the so-called “alaturca” and the other, “alafranga”, have been used side by side for centuries.

FESTIVALS

• - Full Frame Documentary Films Festival, North Carolina-USA, Nisan 2006
• - Turkish Premier 9. International 1001 Documentary Film Festival, October 2006 İstanbul

SCREENINGS

• - New York Museum of Radio & Television, October 2006 , New York, USA