Çiçek
Film with live music performance, 2 hours 33 min, 2016

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In a small village somewhere on Anatolian plateau lives old former engineer with his daughter and wife`s ghost. He dreams about space and wants to reconstruct minarets into spaceships, for resurrected ancestors to conquer distant stellar worlds. He is supposed crazy by former colleagues and village people, but loved for his kindness and wisdom.
Due to his weak health and illness young daughter puts all her power into keeping house and searching for cure. She shares all her young soul love between father and theatre. Once she meets a woman on a side of a road at takes her home. This changes the life order in the family.
Meanwhile a russian theatre director suspected in murder of his wife travels through Turkey in the search for inspiration. All people he meets, dies mysteriously. There is destiny for them to meet.

Film is made mixing documentary and staged approach with most actors – unprofessional locals, involving local political activists.

Village line is built around dialogs based on ideas transferred from Russian philosophy and poetry of late 19th – early 20th century (Fedorov, Khlebnikov, Mayakovskiy, Chernyshevsky, etc.) complimented by performances of the daughter, Çiçek.

Line of theatre director is based on texts by Antonin Artaud and his interaction with Turkish landscapes.

A special music piece to be performed in parallel with the movie was composed by Kirill Shirokov. Music is performed live during screening and has same duration, which is the only straight colleration between it and the film. They do not correlate in narration (composer didn`t saw the film) and form new meanings and experiences during the process of watching and hearing.