Turkey
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Cannes Day Three: Expendables Tanks and Political Turmoil
The outside world’s political problems are intruding more than usual on the Cannes Film Festival. Some relevant items: • A few days ago, Turkish culture minister Omer Celik was excited about coming to Cannes and bullish about the development of his country’s film industry. In an interview with Variety, Celik managed to more or less duck questions about Turkey’s attempted recent bans on YouTube and Twitter (“Turkey is a country with rule of law. Access to certain social-media sites such as Twitter and YouTube has been limited on legal grounds”). But Tuesday’s deadly coal mine collapse in the city of […]
by Vadim Rizov on May 16, 2014 -
IN TURKEY, CINEMA AS CAMERA
Here’s a short video from The Guardian in which artist Mark Wallinger discusses his plans for a cinema/art installation overlooking the Çanakkale Strait in Turkey.
by Scott Macaulay on Jul 9, 2010
