Through The Films My Father’s Wings (2016) and Little Things (2019) an Analysis of the Story of People “Stuck in Limbo

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As a tragic and incomplete being, man will primarily need art, aesthetics and philosophy in his pursuit to create himself and become. He will need to start thinking with unifying concepts and broaden his mind. During this mental process, the concepts discussed in this study will reveal before him the possibilities within his own nature. His ability to have different affects will open up new possibilities and enable him to move forward in life. In this sense, with the reawakening of concepts, reality will undergo change, crystallize, extend, progress and a unique expression of personal resilience and resistance will emerge as Deleuze puts it. For the man stuck in limbo, becoming is an effort directed towards himself. He searches for meaning, aims to figure out the meaning of life. It is a process of creativity that aims to reach from the given to the un-given and to make life livable through a new experience. For both characters in the films mentioned in this study, the search for meaning begins with the emergence of a problem in their lives. One of the characters falls ill, the other is laid off from his job and suddenly becomes unemployed, even though he has loans to repay. Although they react differently to these problems, both of them experience a very structural feeling of being stuck instead of engaging in rhizomatic resistance. Why does director Kıvanç Sezer do this? Why does he give these two characters who cannot succeed in life or even pluralize it, the idea that they can hide within the structure instead of offering them a new alternative? Viewed from this perspective, the solutions that the characters initially come up with as a result of the effort to hold on to life and exist are unable to evolve into permanent and transformative solutions. For this reason, it will be analyzed how in the face of experiences that start without context for the audience, these two characters that are stuck in limbo will resort to action to make a comeback at life. The pursuit of meaning can be considered a creative process. Generation and awareness are the constitutive elements of this process. In the films My Father’s Wings (2016) and Little Things (2019), Kıvanç Sezer presents two passages from possible lives and presents the tragic story of the person stuck in limbo to the audience. The journey that the film invites the audience on, is a ground that allows them to self-contemplate. The film aims to provoke the audience to connect with their essence and start questioning. Sezer did not produce films with therapeutic endings, his are not films in which the audience identifies with the hero and/or accompanies him on his journey. On the contrary, he tried to create an encounter in the audience by portraying characters that the audience might meet in daily life and bringing to the screen their ordinary lives. This is Kıvanç Sezer saying, “there is another way”, and by doing so he has constructed methods to break the in-between, non-pluralizable (rigid) structure. This is Sezer's journey of creativity and awareness. The primary purpose of this study is to emphasize this personal agency and to seek an answer to the question “is there another option?” by trying to approach the problems of Onur and İbrahim, the protagonists stuck in limbo of the films My Father’s Wings (2016) and Little Things (2019) directed by Kıvanç Sezer differently (with a different affect).

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Cinema
• Philosophy
• Deleuze & Guattari
• Nietzsche
• Kıvanç Sezer

“Arada Kalmış” İnsanın Trajik Öyküsüne Babamın Kanatları (2016) ve Küçük Şeyler (2019) Filmleri Üzerinden Bakmak

Öz

Trajik ve eksik bir varlık olan insan her zaman büyük bir çaba içerisindedir. Bu çaba “olmak” ile “oluş” arasındaki mesafeyi kapatmak içindir. Yönetmenliğini ve senaristliğini Kıvanç Sezer’in yaptığı Babamın Kanatları (2016) ve Küçük Şeyler (2019) filmleri, var olma çabasının ürünü nicel çözümlerden nitel bir çözüme niçin kavuşulamadığını ve arada kalmış film karakterlerinin seyirci için ortadan başlayan deneyimlerini eylemliliğe nasıl dönüştürdüklerini inceler. Bu çalışma Deleuze ve Guattari’nin rizom, molar, moleküler ve kaçış hatları kavramlarını temel alarak, İbrahim ve Onur karakterleri üzerinden arada kalmış insanın alternatif imkanlar üzerine düşünmesini sağlamayı amaçlamaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

• Sinema
• Felsefe
• Deleuze ve Guattari
• Nietzsche
• Kıvanç Sezer

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