Earth - Asmin Film Production

About Film

Yeryüzü (Earth) Association has been founded in order to support ecological life and fight environmental problems. Their main argument is organic farming. When we look at the members of the Association, a variety of jobs and different age groups are detected. Their dream is to build an Eco Village. They have set 10 years in front of them to realize that because they are aware that leaving the city is not easy. While they are in the city, they are trying to change the city ecologically. City Gardens Project aims at uniting the urban people with the nature.

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Movie Quotes

Aytaç: I want to eat vegetables without chemical fertilizers. Don’t I have a right to do so? Now, you have to fight for that. Also, I want the climate not to change. Likewise, I do not want nuclear power plants in my country, in the neighboring countries, in Europe or in the world. They constantly explode. I don’t want to eat genetically modified food. That means there is something wrong.

Aytaç: We thought we needed to do something. Then we set up Yeryüzü Association.

Aytaç: We have a dream. We want to build an Eco Village. We set a 10-year time limit for that. This is not easy. Leaving the city is really difficult. Maybe we will lose interest or somebody from our group will lose interest, we do not know that yet. Therefore, the best thing is to experience. Hence, we need to bethroth with the land immediately, and then get engaged. After that we will get married. These traditions are there for a reason.

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

TRT Belgesel Kanalı – TRT Tourism and Documentary Channel

Yönetmen, Metin Yazarı – Written and Directed by

Bingöl Elmas

Kameraman – Camera