It's snowing since 3 days!!! Crazy. It's not something rare in Istanbul, but certainly something unusual.. Sometimes people just leave the car on the side of the street and go on by foot. Especially the first day, when it was a surprise. People don't use to have chains for the wheels in the car. So, for example, here, coming down the hill, cars were just skating down and some guys holding the car by the sides trying to push it into the street. Crazy things...
Now it's still snowing and the tower out of the window is surrounded by flurries of snow flakes.
I upload some pictures below, but beside this extraordinary event, I would like to spend a few words about some video-works produced in Italy which I feel somehow linked with.
I speak today about this because since today it will be possible to watch on italian version of Current Channel the documentary "Una montagna di balle" (= a mountain of balls), produced by InsuTv in Naples, which also I collaborated for.
I am very proud of these guys and what such an experience come from a street-tv could produce. A mountain of balls. "Balls" means the balls of selected and packed waste in wait to be burnt, according to the primitive system of waste disposal that the italian government established in Campania, the region of Neaples. But "balls" in Italian means also "bullshits". So, it's quite clear what we are talking about. The introduction statement of the documentary I like it most: "And if to live in emergency is just a way to make profit ..?". The permanent state of emergency as a new (?) form of dictatorship, the italian way to dictatorship.
Unfortunately the documentary is in Italian language only.. Hope it will be available soon a version with English subtitles.
But there is another work I strongly recommend to you, it's called "Rosarno: il tempo delle arance" (Rosarno: the time of oranges). It's about the facts happened in Rosarno, in the South of Italy, around 2 weeks ago. You can read HERE a short summary on the topic. Anyway, several hundreds of immigrants were displaced by police after days of riots in the streets after some italian guys (allegedly belonging to mafia) shot at immigrants. Why this? Because over there immigrants are living as slaves, with an unacceptable small salary, no house but old and dirty oil tankers as a shelter, working up to 12 hours a day collecting oranges in the countryside. After this seasonal job, they will be scattered in the country as ghosts in danger to be taken and sent out of Italy.
WATCH HERE the 30' minutes documentary. The immigrants are telling what happened in English, so you can follow.
The production is by InsuTv as well.
Just because we are in the discussion, I would like to report a link to a short documentary I shot almost 2 years ago in Vicenza, Italy, about the new American military base under construction despite the protest of the citizens of the city, and struggle of the "No Dal Molin" movement. Somebody recorded the footage on the tv and uploaded on the web. I thank him and I invite you to give a look, without english subtitles unfortunately. WATCH HERE "Vicenza casa mia".
And the snow is reminding me of something else, too. The "No TAV" struggle in Val Susa. I was there more than 3 years ago making a documentary for the italian tv. After 3 years the struggle had to start over again as the government said they want to dig the new tunnel for the railway between Turin and Lyon. We will see: "A sarà düra!!" (= it will be hard, for others..).
Now it's still snowing and the tower out of the window is surrounded by flurries of snow flakes.
I upload some pictures below, but beside this extraordinary event, I would like to spend a few words about some video-works produced in Italy which I feel somehow linked with.
I speak today about this because since today it will be possible to watch on italian version of Current Channel the documentary "Una montagna di balle" (= a mountain of balls), produced by InsuTv in Naples, which also I collaborated for.
I am very proud of these guys and what such an experience come from a street-tv could produce. A mountain of balls. "Balls" means the balls of selected and packed waste in wait to be burnt, according to the primitive system of waste disposal that the italian government established in Campania, the region of Neaples. But "balls" in Italian means also "bullshits". So, it's quite clear what we are talking about. The introduction statement of the documentary I like it most: "And if to live in emergency is just a way to make profit ..?". The permanent state of emergency as a new (?) form of dictatorship, the italian way to dictatorship.
Unfortunately the documentary is in Italian language only.. Hope it will be available soon a version with English subtitles.
But there is another work I strongly recommend to you, it's called "Rosarno: il tempo delle arance" (Rosarno: the time of oranges). It's about the facts happened in Rosarno, in the South of Italy, around 2 weeks ago. You can read HERE a short summary on the topic. Anyway, several hundreds of immigrants were displaced by police after days of riots in the streets after some italian guys (allegedly belonging to mafia) shot at immigrants. Why this? Because over there immigrants are living as slaves, with an unacceptable small salary, no house but old and dirty oil tankers as a shelter, working up to 12 hours a day collecting oranges in the countryside. After this seasonal job, they will be scattered in the country as ghosts in danger to be taken and sent out of Italy.
WATCH HERE the 30' minutes documentary. The immigrants are telling what happened in English, so you can follow.
The production is by InsuTv as well.
Just because we are in the discussion, I would like to report a link to a short documentary I shot almost 2 years ago in Vicenza, Italy, about the new American military base under construction despite the protest of the citizens of the city, and struggle of the "No Dal Molin" movement. Somebody recorded the footage on the tv and uploaded on the web. I thank him and I invite you to give a look, without english subtitles unfortunately. WATCH HERE "Vicenza casa mia".
And the snow is reminding me of something else, too. The "No TAV" struggle in Val Susa. I was there more than 3 years ago making a documentary for the italian tv. After 3 years the struggle had to start over again as the government said they want to dig the new tunnel for the railway between Turin and Lyon. We will see: "A sarà düra!!" (= it will be hard, for others..).
Here above the Galata tower under the snow out of the window.
Here above venturing in the street.
Here above the snowball fight at 3 at night with Hayat and Özgü.
