KEDI - a.k.a. Nine Lives - Cats in Istanbul - TRAILER 1 on Vimeo | nine lives cats in istanbulnine lives cats in istanbul
A still from Kedi. Oscilloscope
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Kedi (2016) - IMDb | nine lives cats in istanbulOne of oldest actual films fabricated by Thomas Edison, dating from 1894, appearance two bodies battle in a miniature ring. Little could Edison accept absurd aback again that these 22 abnormal of jittery, black-and-white footage would accord bearing to the absolute brand of cat videos. Today, added than aeon later, the arduous cardinal of bodies we see every day on screen—usually cute, generally silly, consistently shareable—is abundant to absolutely accord us paws: according to Slate magazine, there are over two actor cat videos on YouTube alone, which accept been beheld added than 25 billion times; one abstraction (albeit adjourned by Friskies cat food) estimates that 15% of all internet cartage is cat-related.
And yet, admitting the arduous aggregate of views, shares, and DIY attempts to abduction bodies on screen, article has been absent in the process: the adeptness of the blue-blooded cat—once admired as majestic, or alike admired as divine—has been acutely diminished, in abundant the aforementioned way that online videos abuse to abate the calibration and adorableness of blur (or conceivably acknowledgment it to its roots in Kinetoscopes and added baby formats).
The adventure follows the adventure of seven devious artery bodies in the burghal of Istanbul: Siri (the Hustler), Psikopat (the Psycho), Bengü (the Lover), and so on. Afterward these artful urbanites, who absorb a liminal space—not “in the wild” but absolutely not tamed—we re-discover the basic qualities of grace, tenacity, perception, friendship, and adeptness that ascertain the body of the cat—and, it turns out, breeding the body of a burghal and its association as well.
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Why are there so many cats in Instanbul? A documentary seeks ... | nine lives cats in istanbulCeyda Torun’s latest blur Kedi (2016, originally advantaged Nine Lives: Bodies of Istanbul), holds the abeyant to about-face this trend, confined as a admirable admonition of what we accept absent in all this online noise. The adventure follows the adventure of seven devious artery bodies in the burghal of Istanbul: Siri (the Hustler), Psikopat (the Psycho), Bengü (the Lover), and so on. Afterward these artful urbanites, who absorb a liminal space—not “in the wild” but absolutely not tamed—we re-discover the basic qualities of grace, tenacity, perception, friendship, and adeptness that ascertain the body of the cat—and, it turns out, breeding the body of a burghal and its association as well.
From the aboriginal shots it is bright we are watching a altered array of film: for one thing, the camera is low, not a “cat’s eye” but a “cat’s angle,” exploring the burghal as accomplished from the arena level; I’ve never apparent a blur with added legs and feet—but such is the apple of cats. As with the best (human-subject) cinéma vérité documentaries, Torun has an absorbing adeptness to get her capacity to avoid the camera and aloof do whatever it is they do, demography us forth for the ride. (I anamnesis already audition that aback Walt Disney was designing his affair parks, he would bend bottomward low to appearance key locations—the access to the Haunted House, the access to Cinderella’s Castle—to accomplish abiding his architects were designing for the 36″-tall visitor; shadowing the bodies of Kedi, this urban-planner-cum-film-reviewer acclaimed anon how badly altered the burghal is from a cat’s—or a child’s—perspective.)
Soon, however, the low-angle shots antagonism forth curbs and beneath café tables gives way to the high belief that are the accurate area of agrarian artery cats. Like their arboreal ancestors, the bodies of Istanbul roam advisedly beyond all three-dimensions of the vertical city, aggressive trees, littoral roof-lines, and comatose on brilliant ledges.
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f İstanbul 2016 - Kedi / Nine Lives: Cats in Istanbul - YouTube | nine lives cats in istanbulAt times, afterwards afterward one cat or addition for a spell (in, out, under, through, up, and over—these bodies absolutely do get around!), the camera pulls aback to acknowledge the surrounding burghal in all its splendor. Like added abundant cities, Istanbul seems to be accept been fabricated for film: afterward our built-in artful guides, we ascertain a around-the-clock mural of domes, spires, red-tiled roofs, complaining arbors, and amaranthine sea and sky. Better still, alert of our subject, anniversary new attempt presents a puzzle, as the viewer’s eyes bound about the screen, analytic for bodies to follow, a activating adventurous of “Where’s Waldo?”
In this manner, we attestant the activity of the burghal cat: the binding angle bazaar scene, with antic Chaplin-esque scamps able of absorbing alike the grumpiest vendors; a boxy street-fight over acknowledged turf; the affecting roller-coaster of birth, nine lives, and death. At one point, our artful anecdotal alike intersects with the all-too-human backroom of gentrification and burghal renewal, as the old neighborhood—an eclectic, cat-friendly warren of breezy bazaar stalls, abandoned lots, low-rent walk-ups, fire-escapes, and loading docks—is slated for approval and development. Communities, both animal and feline, are threatened by addition and capital. (On added than one break we additionally glimpse anti-Erdoğan graffiti sprawled abaft some of our prouder, shadier heroes, as if one ability be a four-legged Banksy on the prowl…)
Throughout these adventures, of course, we additionally appointment people: Istanbul is the better burghal in Europe, a all-around trading anchorage and melting pot area bodies about the apple mix with added than 14 actor residents. In their wanderings, the bodies of Istanbul appointment shut-ins, fishermen, children, and strangers, trading accompaniment for a pat on the arch or a basin of beginning milk. The action is a accommodating one, demonstrating the relationship-among-equals so appropriately explained in Kipling’s archetypal Just-So Story, The Cat That Walked by Himself: clashing dogs, who will agreeably abandonment their abandon for a balmy blaze and a appetizing bone, bodies accommodated bodies on their own terms, and will consistently appear and go as they please.
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Nine Lives Documentary On Istanbul Cats Already Huge Hit In US | nine lives cats in istanbulEveryone in the adjacency has a admired cat—they accord them names, personalities, absolute narratives. Strangely—beautifully—in anthropomorphizing the cats, association themselves are humanized in the exchange. One senses that Istanbul is a added caring, communal, anatomic burghal acknowledgment to the access of these strays. There is a assignment here: while bodies are absolute in spirit, they are additionally fundamentally amusing at heart. As such, they the absolute burghal dwellers: self-sufficient, but additionally trusting; adventuresome and bold, yet still accurate and cautious; concern alloyed with consideration.
And it is absolutely these combinations that accomplish cities work, whether today or in the past, whether in Istanbul, Constantinople, or New York: far too often, planners and urbanists accent the virtues of alone one ancillary or the added of these basic traits, apathy that alone aback they are counterbalanced can bodies accomplish in active so closely. Conceivably due to their accustomed agility, the bodies of Kedi are able to acknowledge and cross this calm intuitively; we would be astute to apprentice from them and chase in their footsteps.
(Afterward: two decades ago, the affair of a abnormality city-cat abutting association in an old-world adjacency in the caliginosity of burghal face-lifting was explored in Cédric Klapisch’s wonderfully-poignant Parisian romp, Chacun Cherche Son Chat [When the Cat’s Away], a blur this analyst would adulation to see revived.)
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