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