Human Against Nature

16/03/2011 - 20:47 Keywords

Human Against Nature

The festival by its theme section on Human Against Nature, calls the audiences to think about the unbalanced nature and its underlying causes.

The film Teciopolis with its impressive story on annihilation of nature by the power of technology will be screened at the openining ceremony of the Festival on the 17th March evening. The film has the characteristics of preface for the festival with its main theme on nature.

The film ‘Plastic Bag’ (2009), by the Iranian director Ramin Bahrani who lives in the US, is one of the prominent films in this section. The director by his short film ‘Chop Shop’, which was screened in the Venice Film Festival and the previous film festivals in Turkey, shows the tragedy and pursuit of a plastic bag in an existentialist way by the off-voice of the master director Werner Herzog. One of the other major film of this section is a documentary ‘Into Eternity’ (2010, Denmark) by Michael Madsen. The documentary shares the first long-term nuclear waste storage of the world, Onkalo in Finland and also it looks from different perspective to the concept of time for nature and humanity and goes to show the fact that the future of this nuclear project will not be seen by anybody alive today. In addition, the documentary named ‘Dive!’ (2010) bears Jeremy Seifert’s signature. The documentary goes against the American consumption and dissipation frenzy by an activist movement and the documentary which is pointed on the director Seifert and his colleagues’ going into one supermarket’s garbage dump in Los Angeles and gathering dissipated foods/waste materials.

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The 22nd International Film Festival takes place on the dates between 17-27 March by the main sponsorship of Halkbank.