The Crowd

The Crowd

The Crowd

Türkiye / Animation / 7' / HD / Color / 2022

The animated film “The Crowd” is evoked by the composition The Crowd from the 1971 album "Sing Me a Song of Songmy, a Fantasy for Electromagnetic Tape" by İlhan Mimaroglu and Freddie Hubbard. Pelin Kirca turns the associations she had into a surreal game and invites the audience to participate.

Composed by avant-garde musician İlhan Mimaroglu and accompanied by trumpeter Hubbard, the album is known for bringing together choir, strings, and all the 'familiar' sounds of jazz music as well as the 'unfamiliar' or rather experimental sounds of musique concrète. The Crowd also contains some text excerpts and poems, especially by Fazıl Hüsnü Daglarca; when we listen to the words, it is quite possible to perceive the existence of anti-war messages mixed into the melody.

Director: Pelin Kırca

Script: Pelin Kırca

Director of Photography: Pelin Kırca

Producer: Pelin Kırca

Music: İlhan Mimaroğlu

Editing: Pelin Kırca

Sound: İlhan Mimaroğlu

Animation: Pelin Kırca


CV

Pelin Kırca completed her undergraduate education at Bilkent University, Department of Graphic Design. Following her BA degree, Kırca received her master's degree in design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. Kırca attended Werner Herzog’s Rogue film school in 2016.

Filmography

The Crowd, 2022

Microscripts, 2020

One Moonless Night, 2016

Memento Mori, 2014

Reconstructing Mayakovsky, 2008

Festivals Attended

20th VIENNA SHORTS 2023
Annecy Festival 2023
Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival 2021
International Canlandiranlar Film Festival 2021
HIVE: International Short Film Days, Berlin 2021
18th VIENNA SHORTS 2021
17. Akbank Short Film Festival 2021

Awards

SAHA Sustainability Fund: Covid-19, Microscripts, 2020
Winner of Cinéhaïku very short film competition, One Moonless Night, 2019

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