4857: February 2009

Updated post for English subtitled trailer:

http://www.vimeo.com/2107099

Screenings

15.4.2009 / International Istanbul Film Festival / Pera Museum Cinema
26.2.-8.3.2009 / Filmestival Türkei/Deutschland / Nürnberg, Germany
13.-16.11.2008 / Seoul International Labor Film Festival, Korea
17.10.2008 / 11.00: Golden Orange Int. Film Festival / Antalya
5. & 6.9.2008 / Karaburun Bilim Kongresi
5-30.7.2008 - LaborFest / San Francisco
18.6.2008 / 17:00 / 20:00: Bilgi University - Dolapdere Cinema/ Istanbul
13.6.2008 / 18.30: Elektrik Mühendisleri Odası / Ankara
12.6.2008 / 21.30: Beyoğlu Sineması / Istanbul

About "4857"

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

4857

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

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