Distant Close

What is the role of an ethnographic filmmaker as an outsider and student of a culture? Is it about representing, demonstrating, and reflecting or exposing, participating, and transposing? Although these are not binary terms of the historic discussions in anthropology, they share a lot to be experimented through shared cine-anthropology and sensory multimodal ethnography.

2024 | 16:9 | 25fps | Black & White and Color | Mina, Adja, French, English, Turkish with English, Greek and Turkish subtitles | 39’

Main Protagonist Kodjo Ames

Director, Cinematographer, Sound Recorder, Editor, Producer Yusuf Ölmez

Producer, Photographer, Sound Recorder Bilge Uçar

Supervising Producers Nadine Wanono, Nora Bibel

Artistic Supervisor Kristian Peteresen

Line Producers Komlan Segnibo, Dosseh Houessou

Sound Mix & Design Helio Rimaud

Colorist Ciwan Zengin

FESTIVALS
2024 – International Documentary Film Festival of Ierapetra
2024 – Vizantrop Engaged Ethnographic Film Festival
2024 – Luleå International Film Festival
2025 – AFSAD International Short Film Festival
2025 – Bitlis Five Minarets International Film Festival