Travel for travel’s sake can be wonderful but nothing beats traveling with a purpose.
Syrian German filmmaker Waref Abu Quba was so taken with Istanbul’s timeless beauty on his first visit in 2021 that he resolved to photograph as many examples of it as possible.
Having amassed some 2,900 photos, he set about animating them using a flash cut technique, rapidly toggling between similar images to bring life and movement to fixed architectural and decorative elements.
(Warning: the resulting content could trigger seizures in viewers with epilepsy or photosensitivity.)
Takrar – Arabic for ‘repetition’ — took two years to complete, condensing the sense of wonder Quba experienced on his travels into four astonishing minutes.
His collaboration with composer Alex Story and percussionist Robbe Kieckens brings added vitality to these ancient patterns on stone, wood, ceramic, and tile.
Among the forms Quba infuses with life are 140 unique columns from Hagia Sophia, each carved with the emperor’s monogram and their land of origin’s capital.
The domed ceilings of Istanbul’s magnificent mosques achieve a kaleidoscopic effect.
The three institutions that comprise the Istanbul Archaeological Museums proved a rich source of material, from Assyrian sculptures and mosaics from Mesopotamia, to ornaments decorating the 4th century BCE Alexander Sarcophagus, to the Hellenistic Sarcophagus of Crying Women, whose titular mourners now shimmy in a ritualistic dance.
Even doorknobs manage to captivate, while a cobalt blue Iznik charger plate from the Museum Of Turkish and Islamic Arts possesses true star quality.
Watch more of Waref Abu Quba’s films here.
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I just started reading Jung’s Aion, and watching this feels like something atavistic, important but inexpressible truths in the geometry, symmetry, and beauty of the forms.
I preferred it as Constantiople….. 500 years of oppression is unacceptable.
What about the Hundred-Year-Wars in Europe?
What about the opression Europeans brought to Africa?
What about the opression of the American Indians?
What about the mess the Us created in the present day Middle East?
Are’nt these “not acceptable”????
You cannot judge history with today’s values…
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