Among the many judges of the Shanghai International Film Festival this year, the most attention-drawing one is obviously the jury\'s chairman, Nuri Bige Ceylan, the Turkish director talked about his filming experience in Golden Goblet Awards Jury Chairman\'s Forum held yesterday. As a director, Ceylan has a unique film language. He uses his full-length shot and literary narrative to accurately express his philosophical thinking, allowing the audience to see the truth of life in silence.
Details Make Films More Realistic
There are many details in Ceylan\'s works that have become the highlights of the film, which left audience with a deep impression. Ceylan said that he would shoot as many scenes as possible in the shooting process. On the one hand, to avoid the lack of material for later editing; on the other hand, he hopes to capture the details of reality during these shootings.
"People like to hide their emotions and expressions. People\'s emotions are constantly changing, but people\'s expressions are just the process of hiding reality and deceiving oneself. This requires the director to capture the details during the shooting process, through the delicate observation of life, capture the details to show the most authentic side." Ceylan said that details at this time became a means to make the film more realistic.
Because of this, the details can firmly grasp the hearts of the audience, and will pull the audience into the movie involuntarily. In the famous THREE MONKEYS, Ceylan used a large number of outdoor fixed full length shot to deepen the silence and depression of the film, rendering a sense of constraint that is entangled with people\'s hearts and people are struggling to break away from it. This reflects the alienation and separation of emotions between characters in the story, which is very fascinating.
Sound Makes Films More Powerful
In addition to the attention to detail in the film narrative, Ceylan also has its own original ideas in the way of film expression, such as the use of sound. "The quality of sound is very important. It must be carefully selected; the sound is conductive to the better understanding of the film and better narrative." Director Ceylan emphasized the importance of sound.
When viewers appreciating Ceylan\'s films, it is difficult to summarize the plots in his films in words, what remains in their minds is the details of various pictures and sounds: the water in wet socks drop on a scalding stove and turns into steam (KASABA), the blue smoke lingers in the dry miscanthus (WINTER SLEEP). The inner power of these sounds can penetrate eardrum, destroying the clarity of viewer\'s emotions and minds, making people swoon in the sorrow of life.
Ceylan said: "These pictures and sounds stretch in time and space. I hope that the audience can perceive them in the space presented by those and recall them in the time they have experienced."
Memory Makes Films Profounder
In movies, except for the enjoyment of hearing, what is more important is the visual impact. For the narration of the story, director Ceylan has his own preferred approach, which is the manipulation of time. Ceylan is very keen on the concept of "potential". "The potential is something that has not yet been realized, but what is also about to be realized. It is something impending. The exploration of memory is also the exploration of emotion and spirit."
Ceylan pointed out that for the poetic things and emotion in films, a deeper insight into it can only be obtained through such time perspective. "The purpose of narrative is to assign different current situations to individual characters, so that each character forms a reasonable and logical combination with it." Through the narrative of each character, let the past come to the present, giving the time a vertical and deep perspective. This is most evident in his famous work WINTER SLEEP. In Ceylan\'s films, what is seen is not the moving images, not the movement of the character, but rather the stagnation or slowness of the character, in which the movement of the character\'s spirit and emotions can be seen.