Movie Details
Original Language:Turkish
I Was A Ghost Myself
DirectorMüge Yildiz
27 min
Plot
I was a ghost myself is a film following a ghosts footsteps psychogeographically trailing through a city where the ancient intertwines with the modern The ghost haunts this itinerary of places projecting its haunts as light in moving images As an archaeologist the ghost portrays the present to uncover the past layer by layer through cracks and reveals exposing herself with her memories and of others who have come and gone before During two years of shooting the filmmaker visits the town she grew up in and the city she later lived in Starting in the citys historical peninsula in the ruinous dungeons she asks is there cinema after death She then visits her childhood town to see her grandmothers grave her old family house and school Filmed entirely with expiredold stock super 8mm film handmade camera lenses and scratched film technique the beams of light dust and aged texture of the film compose the ghost in its emotional state
