RietveldTV's Approximately Ten Tour: #5: Timeless Life II by Baha Görkem Yalım
‘Timeless Life II’ will be shown at Filmhuis Cavia on 28 February at 9PM, and screened on AT5 on 24 and 25 February at 10.40PM.
Baha Görkem Yalım’s film ‘Timeless Life II’ (Zaman Dışı Yaşam II) is based on a scenario written by author Tezer Özlü (1943-1986). Yalım began working on ‘Timeless Life’ in 2012, aiming to channel a writer’s oeuvre without the use of language.
Özlü’s description of train journeys are taken as the connecting vessel of the film while the scenes, locations and other characters are ever-changing. The lack of a plot in this existentialist and abstract film is balanced with a constant positioning of the self of the protagonist in relation to his surroundings. A search for meaning in telling a life’s story in which the real, the constructed and the imagined form an integrated whole.
The different versions Yalım has made of ‘Timeless Life’ challenge the perception of a work of art as a finished entity. Yalım rather considers his film to be an unstable, immaterial entity that is bound to its perception by the viewer, the first viewer being the artist. ‘Timeless Life I', made for RietveldTV in 2017, can be viewed here.
After the screening in Filmhuis Cavia there will be an interesting additional programme curated by Yalim. Including screening of the multimedia animation film 'Objects-Masks -Props’ by duo Karl Hedin and August Ranelid and a reading from Tezer Özlü’s book Zaman DışıYaşam (Timeless Life).
Tickets: 3 euros or free with your Rietveld Society Button.