Watch a master filmmaker wrestle with his own creation — and lose.
A documentary about the shooting session of the film "Climates / İklimler" by Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The film had been shot in various parts of Turkey in various seasons. Climates is the first digital film of the director Nuri Bilge Ceylan. And besides directing, he is also acting in the film.
Direction
Ceylan directing himself — the control freak exposed.
Cinematography
Gökhan Tiryaki's digital experimentation, painting with pixels.
Director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was shot during Ceylan's transition to digital, a betrayal of his beloved 35mm that mirrors the film's themes of painful modernization. Turkish critics read it as an elegy for a dying cinema.
The 'Climates' in the title refers to both weather and emotional temperatures — Nuri and Ebru divorced shortly after, making this an accidental document of a dissolving marriage.
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