Director: Vincent Dieutre
Cast: Eva Truffaut, Vincent Dieutre
France, 2003, 59’, color
French with Turkish subtitles
“March 1977, I landed in Bologna, in an unknown city on the brink of civil war. Arranged, decisive stay with bits of memories, snippets, first names, fragments of effervescence: that of my awakening to World, to desire and that of a general rebellion that shook Bologna like a spasm.” Bologna Centrale began as a radio piece for France Culture, broadcast in March 2003, and is a kind of film diary, a retrospective autobiography, a sort of sentimental documentary about the late 1970s in Bologna where Dieutre lived for three years and returned 20 years later. The film also explores the Italy’s political history during the period when it was stricken by terrorism.
You try to remember the future. A bird painted on the ceramic panel in a historical palace has found its place on the wall. The tiles of a church and a mosque have been painted on canvas. The pattern of a centuries-old ceramic plate appears before you on a velvet curtain.
Over the years of 1864 through 1876, Stanisław Chlebowski served Sultan Abdülaziz in Istanbul as his court painter. As it was, Abdülaziz disposed of considerable artistic talents of his own, and he actively involved himself in Chlebowski’s creative process, suggesting ideas for compositions –such as ballistic pieces praising the victories of Turkish arms.
Is Istanbul a single city? Will Istanbul too, be one day one day divided into different sections, and numbered like the arrondisements of Paris? These are tough questions indeed!
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