Céline on a Cloudy Day

2023

 

Digital, Colour

18’56’’

 

An actress prepares for an audition when her estranged father unexpectedly visits. The two try to spend a day together, but as he helos her record a self-tape, she realises her thoughts are cloudier than she believed

Producers JULIEN CORNWALL, PAUL MAZIERE
Executive Producers ASH TEAGUE, CAN KÖROĞLU
Written & Directed by CAN KÖROĞLU
Cinematographer ET NG
Sound Recordists RUFUS AMBLER, NICK SOUNIDIS

1st AD SCOTT TROTTER
2ND AD TATJANA HONEGGER
1st AC XENIA GÜNTHER, FYRAS SLAIMAN
Gaffer CEM DEMİRER
Steady Cam BEN EELEY
Art Assistant ADEMA TATISHEVA

In front of the camera
PELINE LIBERTY
MURAT ERKEK

Festivals

- Drama International Film Festival, 2024
- Izmir International Film Festival, 2024
- Manchester Film Festival, 2023
- British Society of Cinematographers, Best Cinematography Nominee (dop. Eng Teck NG), 2023

 

Babamın Fotoğrafları /
My Dad’s Photos

2023

 

Photos & Videos

10’00’’

 

Photos taken by my dad between 2017, when I moved to the UK, until when I came back to quarantine for 3 months in 2020. As we go through the photos and comment on them, my dad starts thinking of his brother, Ömer.

Image by ALİ KÖROĞLU
Sound by CAN KÖROĞLU

 

Limon, Portakal ve Kayısı /
The Lemon, The Orange and The Apricot

2020

 

Colour, Digital

8’54’’

 

The lemon, the orange and the apricot trees in our back garden are very different from each other, but sharing the same land for this long, their roots started to get closer.

This is one of the three short films I made during lockdown in Ovacık, Şile, a village situated 70km outside of Istanbul, where I spent 2 months with my family.

İKBAL KÖROĞLU as Lemon
ALİ KÖROĞLU as Orange
CAN KÖROĞLU as Apricot

Image and Sound by THE APRICOT

VTS_01

2004

 

DV Tape, Colour

15’11’’

 

This is the first film I made when I was 13.

My mom and I bring some tea for my dad as a surprise, when he is trying to fish. My dad feels uncomfortable because another man found his secret fishing spot. My mom thinks that he wants to leave because we interrupted his peaceful day. Meanwhile, a sneaky frog gets closer and closer to my dad’s fishing rod.

 

Image and Sound by Can Köroğlu
In front of the camera İkbal, Ali and Can Köroğlu

 

Portrait of Zhizi Hao as H-A-O
with Flowers

2019

 

Black and White, Digital

43’20’’

Excerpt from Zhizi Hao as H-A-O
with Flowers

 

On the left is Hao, dressed exactly as his character in Akrobat (2017), blinded-folded as in the film, sitting in front of a camera without knowing what to expect. On the right hand of the frame are my nearly dead rosebuds, shot in a very similar manner.

Image by CAN KÖROĞLU and ZHIZI HAO
Sound by CAN KÖROĞLU

 

Jonas in Three Colours

2019

 

35mm, Black and White

11’21’’

 

A short film about a 14 in year old boy in detention for drawing a penis on the board, with his mother as the supervisor.

ISAAC DAVEY as Jonas
LAURA SHIPLER CHICO as Laura
KHEIRA BEY as Kheira
CORINNE STRICKETT as Elaine

Written and Directed by CAN KÖROĞLU
Producer SCOTT TROTTER
Cinematographer ZHANFEI SONG
Camera Operator XUEQI WANG
Production Designer GABRIELA NEMÉSIO NOBRE
Sound Recordists SIMON HELBLING, ZHIZI HAO, DENG DONG
Editor and Sound Designer ZHANFEI SONG

1st AD CHIH CHIEH WU Script Supervisors CHEIH HUANG, SHEZAH SALAM Script Consultant GREG SIMMONS 1st AC FLORA TENNANT, PAUL MAZIERE, FYRAS SLAIMAN 2nd AC LIN YU-HSIEN, TANG NGAI HUNG, ROBERT YOUNGBLOOD, SEIHONG CHENG Grip NAIXIN LIANG Sparks ROBERT YOUNGBLOOD, ISIDORA MANOJLOVIC, FYRAS SLAIMAN, RISHIKA BHIWANIWALA, LIN YU-HSIEN, LUDOVICA SORDI, DANIEL CHRISTOPHERSEN, NAOMI PACIFIC Gaffers SHYAM MANJUVIL, ANTHONY HUGHES Grading ENCORE Boom Operators SIMON HELBLING, DENG DONG, NINA CHAVEZ

Dubbing Mixer KATH POLLARD (Creativty Media) Construction Consultant JOHN PICKERSGILL Costume & Make Up GABRIELA NEMÉSIO NOBRE Production Design Assistants HOLLY STANFORD, MICHAŁ GUZENDA, GAIA MILIZIA, IQUE LANGA, ROBERT YOUNGBLOOD, DENG DONG, TYANITA GANCHEVA, INÊS COSTA Production Assistants MICHAŁ GUZENDA, GAIA MILIZIA Still Photographers ROBERT YOUNGBLOOD, GAIA MILIZIA Football Players PROSPERO PENSA, ALEXANDER PALMER, GREG SIMMONS, BOHAO LIU, TANG NGAI HUNG

Frame

2018

 

16mm Colour,

4'41''

 

His brother had a haircut. Now he wants one too.

SİNAN HELVACI
ALEX MCCARAGHER
KRISTAN EVANS
NAOMI EVANS

WrittenDirected and edited by CAN KÖROĞLU
Assistant Director TYANITA GANCHEVA
Cinematographer ZHANFEI SON Production Designer ZHIZI HAO

Camera Operator NAOMI PACIFIC 1st AC CHIH CHIEH WU
Sound Mixer ANDY COLES
Production Assistant MICHAŁ GUZENDA

 

Akrobat

2017

 

Digital, B&W

3'24''

 

His name is Hao. H-A-O.
His father was a pilot who had acrophobia.
But Hao is not like his father.

Directed by CAN KÖROĞLU Sound Designer and Editor ZHANFEI SONG Cinematographer ASHWIN MOHAN Producer ALEX HARRISON

ZHIZI HAO as himself
NAOMI PACIFIC as herself

Agnès Godard on Room 666

2016

 

Digital, Colour

17'01''

 

This is an interview I made with the César Award winner cinematographer Agnès Godard in 2016, in her house in Paris. It was supposed to be published in Klok Magazine No.9, but never did since we stopped publishing the magazine soon after this interview.

The actual interview is around two hours long, but this short film focuses on Agnès Godard’s take on Wim Wender’s Room 666, especially around the reasons behind the absence of the controversial filmmaker Yılmaz Güney in the film.

Directed by CAN KÖROĞLU
Sound by CEREN ÇETİNOĞLU