THE CONFIDANT OF THE HIDDEN CITY
Original Title : Saklı Kentin Sırdaşı
Broadcast Channel :TRT
Date : 2009
Duration : 00:25:00
Format : Betacam, Color, Turkish (English Subtitle)
Episode : 4
Producer & Director - İsmet YAZICI
Written by - İsmet YAZICI
Consultant - Muhittin ŞİMŞEK
Source Text - Muhittin ŞİMŞEK, Ergun KOCABIYIK
Director of Photography - Berkant ÇOLAK, Tevfik ÖBER
Original Music - Gökhan KIRDAR
Assistant Director - Tülay CANBOLAT
Art Director - Sühendan KUMCU İLAL
Production Coordinator - Hakan BİŞKİN
Editing by - Cahide OĞULTÜRK
Animation - Ali AĞA
Narrator - Şerif EROL
Sound Recording by - Hasan BEKTAŞ
Performances - Ozan Doğuş DAL, Özlem ÖZÇELİK
Director Assistant - Murat KALAY
Camera Assistant - Nazım CABA
Inventions of paper and pen are two of the most significant occurrences on the road of cultural history that man proceeded in time. Paper and pen is undoubtedly the most important commencement of the permanence of knowledge, it’s transmission from hand to hand and lighting it’s fire. Times lived when those two objects became more than means of knowledge transmission and they became form of an art in masterly hands. And people burned in the fire of knowledge, gave their lives on the road to transmit it and sometimes paper and pen turned to ash in the hands of people who are scared of knowledge. But Phoenix gathered up the ashes and scattered them again to the children of knowledge and paper and pen then again became mediators for the dreamers of eternity. Pen became a fire for the ones who look and see, for the ones who see and know and for the ones who wants to verbalize what is learned on every step of the time. And the secrets became a sound, became a word on paper.
This documentary “The Confidant of the Hidden City” of four episodes, tells the journey of man setting out with paper and pen, his meetings with thousands years old ancient and accumulated knowledge and his passion of research for his reason of existence.
In the first episode headlined “The Witness of Time” the acquaintance of paper and pen with each other and the journey of pen is told.
In the second episode headlined “Sealed to his Heart had been his Fate...” tells the story of the writing, in the course of time becoming an art form at the Topkapı Palace’s Nakışhane.
In the third episode headlined “When the Universes Display”, a search is made for the traces of a word which ancient cultures believed that it be descendent from heavens. Man’s appreciation of pen and word as sacred and unfolding himself in the world as an inscription and as a secret tablet is told.
In the fourth episode headlined “A Heart Sore at the Time of the Way”, the journey of man starting from the Babylonian myth with his passion of possessing knowledge and his comprehension of knowledge and the dilemma underlying this apprehension and the subsequent happenings which he enforced the world and his own experiences are told along with the symbolism of letter.
