What They Could Take With Them, They Took
Mix Media | 7 min | 2009
Music: Lucinda Ross
Dubbing Mix: Graham Lawson
Additional Animation,
Colour grading and Compositing: Callum Cooper
Production: Royal College of Art, London
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Winner of the Student Animation Award, Kinofilm Manchester 2010
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"When people saw me drawing, they spoke to me."
What they could take with them, they took is a film that evolved from an old story and an old coin. The coin was minted in Constantinople in 1808. However the story started in the beginning of 1900, when the family of my great-grandfather was forced to emigrate from Turkey to Bulgaria due to various political changes in the Balkan region at that time.
Based around the notion of inheritance, What they could take with them, they took is an exploration into my family history. It’s a film about the need to relate to and identify with the past.
The coin (still photography)
Archive materials (still photography)
Archive materials (still photography)
Archive materials (still photography)
Sketches; on the way to Turkey (pencil on paper)
Sketches; on the way to Turkey (pencil on paper)
Sketches; on the way to Turkey (pencil on paper)
Sletches; Silivri, Turkey (pencil on paper)
What the could take with them, they took (still)
What they could take with them, they took (still)
What they could take with them, they took (still)
What they could take with them, they took (still)
What they could take with them, they took (still)
What they could take with them, they took (still)
What they could take with them, they took (still)
What they could take with them, they took (still)