URBAN NOISE - ISTANBUL

(Live Action - Short Film / 09:47 / 2019)

Film, Creative Direction, Cinematography

In an experimental documentary of street life in Istanbul, Turkiye captured with a cellphone, "Urban Noise: Istanbul" (Turkiye, 2019) by Alper Durmaz, images and sounds of street life are imbued with a sense of magic, and otherworldliness, which can be seen especially, in the stark, near-black tonalities.

- Pablo Frasconi (Professor of the “Practice of Cinematic Arts” and MFA Director of Graduate Studies in USC Cinematic Arts of the University of Southern California)

CREATING EXPERIMENTAL DOCUMENTARY FILMS: Theory and Practice Beyond Convention
First Published 2025 by Routledge

_______________________FILM FESTIVALS AWARDS________________________
2024 - Political Film Festival, Winner, Best Black & White Film, Los Angeles / USA
2021 - The BeBop Channel Content Festival, (Europe) Best Poetic Short, New York / USA
2020 - 14. Istanbul International Architecture and Urban Films Festival, Final Selection, ISTANBUL
2019 - LIFT-OFF GLOBAL First-Time Filmmaker Sessions July 2019, Official Selection, ENGLAND

___________________________FILM SCREENING____________________________
2025 - Tower Gallery, In Black and White Exhibition, Screening, London / United Kingdom
2023 - Kalakari Film Fest, Official Selection, INDIA
2020 - Cornerstone Short Film Competition,Official Selection, Islamabad / PAKISTAN
2020 - Filmaê - Brasília Mobile Film Festival, Official Selection, Brasília / BRAZIL
2020 - The BeBop Channel Content Festival, Official Selection, New York / USA

Istanbul's city noise, street music, and daily chaos are offered with city chaos. The film exposes the city's panorama. This film questions the transformation of the city. It takes the viewer on an experimental tour of Istanbul.

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