Emin Alper

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Emin Alper (born August 13, 1974 in Ermenek ) is a Turkish film director and screenwriter .

Life

Training and turning to cinema

Emin Alper, who grew up in Central Anatolia , graduated from high school in Ankara . He then enrolled at the Istanbul Boğaziçi Üniversitesi specializing in civil engineering. Due to his interest in social issues, Alper changed subjects two years later and instead studied economics, and later also history. He did his doctorate in Modern Turkish History and taught at the İstanbul Teknik Üniversitesi at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. According to Alper, studying film was out of the question in the 1990s as there was no public funding system for auteur films in Turkey .

As a teenager, Alper became enthusiastic about the cinema, theater and literature. He cites a key event when he saw Emir Kusturica's The Time of the Gypsies (1989) when he was 18 years old. When he was a student, Alper was a member of the theater group and the university film club, where panel discussions and interviews with well-known Turkish directors such as Zeki Demirkubuz and Nuri Bilge Ceylan were organized. He names Ceylan as one of the greatest influencers, alongside Stanley Kubrick , Michael Haneke , Rainer Werner Fassbinder , Sergio Leone and the American authors William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor and the Russian writers Dostoyevsky , Tolstoy and Chekhov . In addition to film reviews, which he published in a university-owned publication due to the lack of film magazines in Turkey, Alper also tried his hand at first drafting scripts. In 2004 he also appeared as an actor in the short film Apartman by his friend, Turkish filmmaker Seyfi Teoman , who promoted him until his accidental death in 2012. In 2005 Alper had an appearance as an actor in the short film Çarpisma (2005) by Umut Aral, and Mektup (2005) and Rıfat (2006) made his first short films.

Success with first feature films

After receiving his doctorate in 2009, Alper began work on his feature film debut with the support of Zeki Demirkubuz and Seyfi Teoman as producer. Tepenin ardi - Beyond the Hill (2012) tells the story of an aging patriarch (portrayed by Tamer Levent ) who lives in barren conditions in the lonely mountains of Anatolia and receives a visit from one of his sons and grandchildren. Coexistence is characterized by dependencies and smoldering aggression as well as by the fear of nomad attacks. Alper had already started writing the script for the film 15 years before filming began. He reworked it a year before the three-week film shoot, which took place near the Anatolian village where Alper grew up. Tepenin ardi - Beyond the Hill was premiered in 2012 in the forum of the 62nd Berlin International Film Festival, where the visually stunning Western parable with biting, profound commentary on Turkish social structures was praised by the taz as "one of the most extraordinary debuts in Turkish cinema in recent years" has been. Alper's first feature film won the Caligari Film Prize at the Berlinale . More than 20 other international film and festival prizes followed, including the main prizes at the international film festivals in Istanbul and Ankara .

After the great success of his feature film debut, in 2015 Alper received an invitation to compete for the Golden Lion at the 72nd Venice International Film Festival for his second feature film, Abluka - Everyone distrusts everyone (English-language festival title: Frenzy ) . In its gloomy version of the future, Turkey has become a state controlled by an enormous police force, spying on its citizens and fighting opponents as terrorists. The focus is on a pair of brothers from Istanbul. The elder (portrayed by Mehmet Özgür ) is released early from prison to join a special unit that searches the city's rubbish for traces of explosives for an unspecified terror series. In the barracks on the outskirts of Istanbul, he meets his younger brother ( Berkey Ates ) again. He hunts the feral dogs in the city, although he cares for his own dog after work. Abluka was counted among the extended circle of favorites for the Golden Lion and won the special prize of the jury as well as the Premio Arca CinemaGiovani for the best film in the competition.

Alper describes himself as a pessimistic filmmaker and names Stanley Kubrick's Eyes Wide Shut and Michael Haneke's Caché as the most impressive films of the last 20 years.

Filmography

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kız Kardeşler film data sheet
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Blottière, Mathilde: Ça sent la relève: Emin Alper, réalisateur de “Derrière la colline” at telerama.fr, April 4, 2013 (accessed on September 11, 2015).
  3. ↑ a b c d e portrait at aljazeera.com.tr, October 13, 2013 (Turkish; accessed September 11, 2015).
  4. ↑ Data sheet for Tepenin ardi - Beyond the Hill at berlinale.de (PDF file; accessed on September 11, 2015).
  5. ^ A b c Roy, Jean: La menace se dissimule là où on décide qu'elle se terre . In: L'Humanité , April 10, 2013 (accessed via the Nexis press database ).
  6. ↑ Tepenin ardi - Beyond the Hill in the lexicon of international film (accessed on 12 September 2015).
  7. ↑ Premi ufficiali della 72. Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica ( Memento of the original from September 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at labiennale.org, September 12, 2015 (accessed September 12, 2015).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.labiennale.org
  8. ^ ANSA : Venezia: gli altri premi collaterali, da Anomalisa a Gitai; Premio del pubblico della Sic a Tanna . September 12, 2015 4:18 PM CET (accessed via Nexis ).
  9. ↑ Portrait ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. by Alice Leroy at critikat.com, April 9, 2013 (French; accessed September 12, 2015).  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.critikat.com
personal data
SURNAME Alper, Emin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Turkish film director and screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1974
PLACE OF BIRTH Ermenek