Istanbul Gelisim University - The oldest civilization displayed with the youngest generation

The oldest civilization displayed with the youngest generation

Estimated to be 3 thousand years older than Göbeklitepe, one of the archaeological discoveries that can cause the world history to be rewritten with its approximately 12 thousand years old history, Karahantepe is brought to the screen with the new generation.

Karahantepe, which was discovered after Göbeklitepe, which is shown as one of the greatest archaeological discoveries in the world, continues to attract attention. It is stated that the area where archaeological excavations continue may be 3,000 years older than Göbeklitepe.

MUNICIPALITY AND UNIVERSITY JOINT WORK

High school students who participated in the Urfa Film Workshop jointly organized by Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Municipality and Istanbul Gelisim University shot a documentary film of the excavations in Karahantepe. The Urfa Film Workshop, organized in cooperation with the Metropolitan Municipality Press and Public Relations Department and Istanbul Gelisim University Fine Arts Faculty, lasted a total of 3 days. While the participating high school students were given cinema training on various topics from script to shooting, the students who took the cameras in their hands pressed the record button to bring the world's oldest civilization to the screen. Citizens living in the region watched the documentary footage with curious eyes.

THE DOCUMENTARY GALA TO BE HELD IN SANLIURFA

After the workshop, the images taken by the students will be edited by Istanbul Gelisim University and the documentary will be screened at the gala that will be held in Şanlıurfa. Certificates will be given to the students who attend the workshop.
Documentary Film Director and Head of Communication and Design Department of Istanbul Gelisim University Fine Arts Faculty Assoc. Dr. Nagihan Çakar Bikiç says, “In this workshop we hold together with high school students, they shoot documentaries with us so that they can listen to very different stories. Why do we do it with high school students? In fact, we started to discover students by bringing university professors here and we listen to the different stories of the students. Students also make a documentary film, both while receiving training in our workshop and practically on the field. Later, we will edit this documentary and hold our premiere in Şanlıurfa.”

TEENS WITH FILM INTEREST ELECTED

Emphasizing that they hold workshops in many different locations of Anatolia, Deputy Rector Prof. Dr. Nail Öztaş says, “As a university, we organize workshops in various places of Anatolia for teenagers. One of them is film workshop. Here, in cooperation with Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Municipality, nearly 30 high school students, who are interested in cinema and film, have been selected. We train them for 3 days on subjects that a filmmaker should know such as directing, camera, sound, light and screenplay with the invaluable and award-winning teachers of our Faculty of Fine Arts. While filming the documentary of the cities we went to, and of this very important historical ruin, Karahantepe, which is behind us here, they both learn and practice so that they can learn by applying these trainings. After these shootings are completed, our professors will complete the editing at our university, and after about a month, we will open the documentary films of our children, whose names are written in the credits, and which we will wholeheartedly applaud, with the gala, for the public and the protocol to watch. Our children will dress stylishly and brag about their work.”

Şanlıurfa Metropolitan Municipality Mayor Zeynel Abidin Beyazgül says, “We realized that there was a civilization 12 thousand years ago, but how this civilization was formed is not known much better yet. What these people did in these places that were discovered as living spaces, how they developed works of art, these will now come to light if God permits. Indeed, it is a matter of curiosity, each stone, each piece of art can bring us a different interpretation, but it can also bring a different interpretation to each person. A scientific research was needed to form an opinion that everyone stood on. Our professor, Nail Oztas is here with his delegation. Their opinions are very important to us. If Allah wills, we will make a presentation, documentary and promotion of this together. Then we will perhaps make a very different voice to the world.”

The project coordinators of the workshop are IGU Faculty of Fine Arts Dean Prof. Dr. Şükran Güzin Ilıcak Aydınalp and Assoc. Dr. Nagihan Çakar Bikic, Lect. Director Ahmet Bikic is the workshop director, Okan Kırbacı and Istanbul Gelisim University Faculty of Fine Arts students Enes Dalgıç and Polat Bakırtaş are in the technical team, and Res. Asst. Ayten Bengisu Cansever, Res. Asst. Başak Lale and Res. Asst. Büşra Kamacıoğlu are in the design team.