Permaculture - Asmin Film Production

About Film

Permaculture is a holistic design science which enables sustainable human settlements. Turkish Permaculture Research Institute has been founded in order to introduce permaculture and make its applications widespread in Turkey. In our film, we are tracking down permaculture applications in Turkey.

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Movie Quotes

Mustafa: At this point, I have a serious problem. I clearly see all the troubles that our so called civilization will bring. Let me explain this with a quotation: Even an evil mind could not have created a thing so destructive as agriculture. We have actually invaded the world with agriculture and we are creating what we call food deserts such as square miles of corn in Iowa, the USA. There is no such thing in the nature. This has been created by man and it is totally against the nature’s laws. The most serios erosion is the result of this mono cultural, big scale and conventional agriculture.

Mustafa: Permaculture is a design science. This is its simplest explanation. It is very important to highlight that permaculture is not an agricultural method, ecological method or fisheries method. It’s not a water harvest method, nor is it an alternative economy method. It is not an alternative corporate structuring method, either. It is the blending the positive reciprocal effects of all of them in a life web.

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