DISTANT CONSTELLATION

By Shevaun MIZRAHI

CURRENT TIME TV - as BROAD

Documentary - Completed 2017

A Tarkovskian dream-like landscape, featuring the inhabitants of a Turkish retirement home where pranksters, artists and old casanovas seduce us to confront the true nature of time.

Festivals
& Awards

Locarno Film Festival 2017
Special Mention
BFI London FF 2017
Official Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2017
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • USA, TURKEY
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, TURKISH, FRENCH, ARMENIAN, GREEK, KURDISH
    • Director(s)
    • Shevaun MIZRAHI
    • Producer(s)
    • Shelly GRIZIM, Deniz BUGA
    • Synopsis
    • This haunted reverie drops us inside an Istanbul retirement home, where the battle-scarred residents bask in the camera’s attention. A creakyvoiced woman confides her personal account of the Armenian genocide. A sweetly deluded pianist performs a composition before confessing his love. A blind photographer fiddles with his flash as he points his own camera back at us. Shevaun Mizrahi’s playful, immaculately controlled film finds hypnotizing rhythms in the residents’ limbo-like state. Meanwhile, outside, ominous construction equipment transforms the land.