Eco Market - Asmin Film Production

About Film

The results of genetically-modified products, hormones and additives have become much more visible. When there’s no taste or smell in what we eat, there has been a return to the natural. Especially, parents who just had children gave priority to finding natural, non additive products on top of everything else. New markets have been set up with the leadership of Wheat Association. We have ecological markets in Kadıköy, Şişli and, the newest, in Kartal. Our film narrates the life that has been created in the ecological market which is much more than just a market with its music, shows and activities.

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Movie Quotes

Batur: Generally, there’s a perception of luxurious goods. Actually, organic products are not luxury. They are not products for one group of people, either. When they become common, their prices will decrease, too. When we have a look at the customer profile of our markets, families with children take the lead. These families are generally between 30-40 and they just had children. They have had cancer in the family or they are gourmets. Also, they are from the group we call as intellectuals. As Wheat Association, we have never regarded these markets as a trading place. We did not embrace a model like that. Unless we share the philosophy of ecological life and culture or generalize it for everyone, we do not think that the sale of organic products will increase in Turkey. People may come to the market because it is the trend. They only come for a short time but that is their mentality.

Purpose, Approach

With their structuring, crowd and chaos making our lives a torture most of the time, are big cities our only alternatives? Can there be a conscious and preferred country life in our country too? Is it possible to live without being apart from the nature or being carried away by the consumption frenzy? Can there be an urban farmer? Are all these running away from the city, these pursuits a kind of trend? We think aloud with the people whose lives we witness. We are reconsidering the cities we live in. We ask if it is possible to build a new living space with our own color and shape apart from the models that are presented to us.

In a world where everything is constructed upon the urban life are these life trials utopic?

In our narration which we used the witness method basically, we will have questions that we seek answers. Is it possible for people who have spent so much time in big cities to get rid of this urbanism that stick on them?

The work done is very important but how and what is the source of the responses of practical life?

How do people who have little or no contact with the nature have a start in the country? Is this a reunion or just a struggle with the nature? Is the word ‘it’s not the nature that needs us but we need the nature’ valid in every situation?

Is it possible for the ones who fought or struggled with the nature all the time and had a public memory to have another relationship in an instant?

Our film focuses on the ones who leave the city in order to ‘have a collective life in the country’. Although we take a stand with the ‘another life is possible’ idea, our attitude to these stories do not show it. In these life style trials, we not only witness the things created but also show the things that do not work or contradict.

Crew

Yapım – Production

TRT Belgesel Kanalı – TRT Tourism and Documentary Channel

Yönetmen, Metin Yazarı – Written and Directed by Bingöl Elmas

Görüntü Yönetmeni – Director of Photography Koray Kesik

Kameraman – Cameraman Mehmet Eren Bozbaş

Kurgu – Editing Uğur Hamidoğulları, Ali İlhan

Ses – Sound Özkan Arınkal

Müzik – Music Taner Sarf Yapım

Yönetim Asistanı – Assistants to the Director Sultan İlhan, Özgür Küçüktülü

Görsel Tasarım ve Jenerik -Color Correction and Generic Desing Ali İlhan

Ses ve Görüntü Deşifresi Aliye Düşünmez, Sultan İlhan