Voice of My Father
Mehmet approaches his family’s past through tapes carrying his father’s voice. Orhan Eskiköy and Zeynel Doğan build a memory narrative between documentary and fiction.
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- Director
- Orhan Eskiköy, Zeynel Doğan
- Language
- Kurdish, Turkish
- Year
- 2012
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Themes
- Family · Memory and history
Preparing to become a father, Mehmet searches for audio tapes once exchanged within his family. Conversations with his mother Basé make what is left unspoken as important as what is heard. Rotterdam’s record describes a narrative about family bonds and identity at the boundary of documentary and fiction.
Follow the relationship between voices on tape and present-day images. Ask what information a family recording carries and which gaps it leaves open. Song of My Mother and Zer continue the question of building family memory through music and listening in different ways.
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