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documentary / 30' / 2008
Turkey (turkish / english subtitles)

Tuzla Cemetery overlooks Tuzla Shipyards. Now start walking down the cemetery slope. On your left is the military zone. Green and free of humans. Then all of a sudden you see nothing but concrete blocks of flats. The workers leave their homes around seven in the morning to work "outside", in the shipyards, in leather and side industries. Among the family flats you can also find bachelor apartments filled with beds and longing for the family. Keep walking down the slope: factories manufacturing small ship parts, the unceasing roar from the İçmeler Köprüsü on the E5 freeway, the never empty labor pick-up strip at the crossroads, the sound of the local express train. Walk pass the İçmeler stop, and here is Aydınlı Bay packed with almost all of Turkey's shipyards. The workers who go through forty eight different doors everyday, hundred men high cranes, steel sheets, the speed and sweat which merge them into one. The time unit in the shipyards is the fleeting instant a cigarette bud is dropped on the floor, the split second between making a living and death between hope and pain, their and ours. Tuzla Cemetery overlooks Tuzla Shipyards.

CAMERA

SELÇUK ERZURUMLU
ÖMER ÖZTÜRK
ETHEM ÖZGÜVEN

EDITING

SELÇUK ERZURUMLU
ÖMER ÖZTÜRK
PETRA HOLZER

SOUND

SERKAN ÇİFÇİ
BÜLENT ÖZCAN

TRANSLATION

ITIR ERHART
ASLI ODMAN

DIRECTOR

PETRA HOLZER
SELÇUK ERZURUMLU
ETHEM ÖZGÜVEN

Many Thanks to

OSMAN UMUROĞLU
NEVRA AKDEMİR
AYNUR ÖZBAKIR
ZAFER TOPALOĞLU
CAN AYDIN
MUSTAFA YAZICI
ULAŞ BEŞOKLAR
TOLGA KUTLUAY

eozguven@bilgi.edu.tr petramh@gmail.com selchook@yahoo.com