Agnes Godard On Room 666
Directed by Can Koroglu
Sound by Ceren Çetinoglu
15’01’’
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 Yılmaz Güney in the film.
As the cinematographer of the film, made in 1982 by Wim Wenders in a hotel room, inviting 15 directors to answer the same question about the death of cinema, she talks about her memories and experience of the shoot, and how Güney appeared in the film with only his voice.
Portrait of Zhizi Hao as H-A-0
43’
Image by Can Köroğlu and Zhizi Hao
Sound by Can Köroğlu
This 43 minutes long portrait of Zhizi Hao, who acted in my first short semi-fictional film “Akrobat”, came out when I was trying to find a way to interview the characters I create, without asking them any questions.
Hao is wearing the exact clothes he was wearing in the film, including the eye cover, without having any clue about what was expecting him in the next hour. When I started rolling and left the room, I had no idea either.
After the first fifteen minutes, where he and I get used to the silence and the uncomfortable formality of our "experiment”, he starts talking to himself, without knowing if I was even in the room or not. It was fascinating for me to watch his internal journey, as a consequence of this very primitive “being watched without seeing” game, starting from daily worries, reaching his emotions about his mother’s birthday.
35mm, Black and White
11’25’’
Jonas in Three Colours
Jonas in Three Colours, 2019
35mm, B&W, 11’21’’
© 2019 London Film School
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 Sound Recordits Simon Helbling, Deng Dong, Zhizi Hao 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, Michal Guzenda, Gaia Milizia, Ique Langa, Robert Youngblood, Deng Dong, Tyanita Gancheva, Ines Costa
Production Assistants Michal Guzenda, Gaia Milizia Still Photographers Robert Youngblood, Gaia Miliza Football Players Prospero Pensa, Alexander Palmer, Greg Simmons, Bohao Liu, Tang Ngai Hung
Written and Directed by Can Köroğlu
Cinematographer Zhanfei Song
Camera Operator Xueqi Wang
Production Designer Gabriela Nemésio Nobre
Editor and Sound Designer Zhanfei Song
Isaac Davey as Jonas
Laura Shipler Chico as Laura
Kheira Bey as Kheira
Corinne Strickett as Elaine
Colour Video with Sound
2018, 12’52’’
Painter
13 minutes of a painter on a Sunday afternoon.
Manchester Film Festival 2019, Official Selection
Cinalfama Lisbon International Film Awards, 2018 Honorable Mention
Los Angeles Underground Film Forum, Official Selection
Akrobat
Written and Directed by Can Köroğlu
Sound Design and Editor Zhanfei Song
Cinematographer Ashwin Mohan
Producer Alex Harrison
Hao Zhizi as himself
Naomi Pacific as himself