THE MAP OF CONSCIOUSNESS
Original Title : Bilincin Haritası
Broadcast Channel : TRT
Date : 2002
Duration : 00:25:00
Episode : 4
In 2002, the documantery "Bilincin Haritası" ("The Map of Consciousness") received a private prize of jury which was given by Sedat Simavi's Fondation
Producer & Director - İsmet YAZICI
Written by - İsmet YAZICI
Production & Management Assistant - Senem SEÇİLMİŞ
Production Coordinator - Mehmet AKDİL, Mustafa AŞÇI, Hasan BİŞKİN
Consultants - Murat GÜLSOY, Ergun KOCABIYIK, Nazlı ÖKTEN
Director of Photography - Tevfik ÖBER
Editing by - Nilay BİLGEN, Ahmet ÖZKAN, Gülden ÇOLAK, Murat IŞIK, Sıdıka ERALP, Berrin AYKÖSE
Sound Recording by- Aytül ASİROĞLU, Medine BORAZAN
Original Music by - Mercan Dede
Narrator - Şerif EROL, Nefrin TOKYAY
Performances - Erkan BEKTAŞ, Özge DAYAN, Ceren SOYLU, Erol BABAOĞLU
Decor - Aslı Nur YAĞIZ
'The Map of Consciousness' was planned as a four - part documentary programme, with the sub-headings 'Birth', 'Journey', 'Equilibrium' and 'Return'. Each section of the documentary is devoted to the major turning point of a person's life.
'The Map of Consciousness' begins with birth and then goes on to explore the 'four seasons' of a person's life - namely childhood and youth, adulthood, old age and finally death. These phases, inspite of their transient nature, are the major turning points, the 'four doors' of a person's life. The 'four doors' form the 'map of consciousneess'in all cultures. Processes such as socialisation, ancounters with others, rituals of transition, the meanings these rituals impart to our lives and the marks all these phenomena leave in diffenent cultures constitute the theme of the documentary.
While the concept of Birth is death with Part One -'Birth'- of the 'Map of Consciouness' documentary, the matter of 'beginning' and 'creation', the fundamental 'problematique' of thousand of years of human history, is studied and the approach of various cultures to the phenomenon of birth is explored.
Part Two, entitled 'Journey', is devoted to childhood andyouth, dwelling on beliefs and traditions relating to these transition periods in different cultures.
The third part of this documentary, "Equilibrium", is devoted to man's period of maturity, or adulthood. This is a period when we confront ourselves and find an "inner" equilibrium. The symbolic equivalents of this period are "fire", "the mirror", "the journey", "the labyrinth" and "the cave", all of which are dealt with in this section.
The fourth and final part of the documentary is headed "Return". It describes old age and death, ways in which different cultures perceive death, together with their funeral traditions. "The summit", "the mountain" and "the tree" are the symbolic equivalents of this period and are analysed in Part 4.
