28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

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Time Worm
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Time Worm

Time Worm

director: Sena Başöz
original title: Zaman Böceği
country: Türkiye
year: 2014
running time: 30 min.

synopsis

After several decades of absence, a traditional craft has returned to Diyarbakır: silk production. An observation of home-grown silkworms, from the first egg to the silky cocoons. A sensitively woven look at the patient work of people living in rooms full of silkworms and children.

biography

Sena Başöz (1980) was born in İzmir. She studied film at Bard College in New York and economics at the Bosporus University in Istanbul, and is currently a doctoral candidate at the city’s Technical University. She works with video and performance art, and her short films have been shown at festivals in Cannes and Seoul, among other places.

more about film

director: Sena Başöz
producer: Sena Başöz
photography: Melissa Üneri
editing: Fatih Bilgin
music: Nora Krahl
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