Kurdish cinema comes to life with Cegerxwîn
DİYARBAKIR (DİHA) - The Cegerxwîn Youth Culture and Arts Center in Diyarbakir, academic studies and interest in art, offers new opportunities for everyone. İlhan Bakir, Instructor of Film Academy center, orientalist perspective on Kurdish cinema and a theater away from the West positivism has said that they wanted to improve the understanding.
Arts and culture activities conducted in Diyarbakır Cegerxwîn in Youth Culture and Arts Center, especially youth and women including four years of art and culture offers a new alternative to everyone involved. Centers with experienced trainers in the field of working as an academy and academic lectures on a total of 6 sections. All courses and general education in the Kurdish language be given by academic studies, poses the most important point. Given 5 days a week in the center of the academic education, literature, picture, music, cinema, folk theater of cultural and artistic activities are being undertaken in the area.
'Thesis is required for graduation'
Each passing year, there is a growing interest for the center. 3 years providing education in the field of cinema cultural center, it 's two years of theoretical training, while one year internship, thesis and programming on the project. In addition, training of students in academic requirement for graduation, a theoretical thesis preparation is required. Instead of a thesis can be also prepared a documentary or short film. Again, theater academy in sociology, history, art and philosophy courses is also provided. A wide variety of courses in the field of cinema in the cultural center where the basic courses, courses scenarios, such topics as the history of cinema and director of photography is being processed. Apart from these movies, reading and interpretation of the history of art and literature courses, students are taught to utilize folk stories.
' Films about Kurds are far from reflecting reality'
In today's world between the Kurds and the place and role of cinema is quite large. Suffering human and social tragedy, human relationship to nature, as well as the individual and the history of the people, through this branch of art in society are attempting to be a more effective way. Assessing the current status of Kurdish cinema Cegerxwin Youth Culture and Arts Center Theatre Academy Trainer İlhan Bakir, films made today regarding the Kurds, the Kurds found in his critique adequately reflect reality. Kurds was received subject to the movies "orientalist eye" approach stated. "We look at art and cinema in making an accurate understanding of the development. Kurdish cinema popular understanding, away from intertwined with society and social realities tell you. It correctly peoples of the world must be described. Power Kurds from the geography, culture from the culture of the Middle East want to participate. Kurdish cinema from the perspective of perpetrators and Western orientalists away from positivism would like to develop an understanding of cinema," he reported.
'We live in cinematography auto orientalism'
Kurds for centuries to protect their assets presented a great challenge, Kurds in terms of them a powerful story and narrative tradition emerged, he said. Kurdish cinema is for the record of these materials Copper, therefore as the subject of Kurdish cinema drew attention to the difficulty. On the one hand Kurdish history, traditions cinema trying to tell the other hand, the Kurdish reality distorting or an orientalist perspective transfer capitalist system, their understanding of the judge, it also have negative consequences expressed that, "Now the Turkish cinema, the Kurdish people negative and hate as a symbol showed. Recently a liberal perspective there. But these Kurds good spells does not mean beside us in our cinemas and schools, both these effects remained below we see that bit away stand. Battle on something they want to do, but both side to be bothered do not want. Recently in Kurdistan on war two movie was filmed, but both the film's principal characters as white were Turks. And both Istanbul comes from. We also our pain, grief our from their eyes see. We also auto we live-orientalism. This is the effect of liberalism," he said.
'Art is interpretation of strong opinions on society'
As each nation a history of the Kurdish people voicing, this history of Kurdish people is very great significance to the art of cinema, he stressed. The most important argument for cinema history, indicating in the Middle East is in a position forward of Iranian cinema, the most important reason is to base them of their culture and literature, he said. Besides, the Kurdish culture and literature that expressed very strong copper, Kurds, dengbêjs the ways and methods of storytelling to make the basic form of cinema that they can create more powerful cinema noted.
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