At All Hours and None
In tutte le ore e nessuna
Davide Minotti, Valeria Miracapillo
International Competition Documentary Film
Documentary Film
Italy, 2023
19 minutes
Turkish, French, Italian, English
Subtitles: English
International Premiere
“Words are the only instruments I have”, says Aslı Erdoğan in this powerful audiovisual collage. The writer, physicist and human rights activist who lives in exile in Berlin writes against the disappearance and loss of her own language. As a former political prisoner in Turkey, she knows only too well what autocratic violence and oppression intend: to silence people.
In this sense, this filmic portrait sets itself vociferously against the silence. Words flicker between fragments of the history of protest in Turkey. Working with text, photography and archive material, the film embarks on a vibrant visual and acoustic journey through places and times that shaped Aslı Erdoğan’s homeless life. Taking inspiration from her autobiographical collection of prose, “Requiem for a Lost City”, individual history becomes collective. A many-voiced choir reminds us that language is the thing that nonetheless holds everything together.
Annina Wettstein
https://www.dok-leipzig.de/en/film/all-hours-and-none/programm
DIE SIEBEN TODSÜNDEN
BRECHT / WEILL / ASLI ERDOĞAN / MARC LEROY-CALATAYUD Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, le 10 janvier 2024
Aslı Erdoğan 