Not Every Day is Spring
Nicht jeder Tag ist FrühlingAs part of the state run Turkish Radio and Television Corporation, Istanbul Radio was established in 1927 as a tool to shape a cultured Turkish citizenry around a collective act of listening. In the process of building the radio station, the vast Pangaltı Armenian cemetery was destroyed, its marble tombstones dispersed and integrated into the city’s architecture. The destruction also made room for the Hilton Hotel, Taksim Square and Gezi Park, turning the area into the iconic centre of the new metropolis. In 2013, when bulldozers began to demolish Gezi Park to build a shopping complex in its place, they exposed remnants of the Pangaltı tombstones, before being blocked by mass protests.
With
- Cengiz Sarikus
- Sedat Oytun
- Khaled Alseka
- Jamal Shaber
- Khaled Halabi
- Firas Jawish
- Erol Can
- Nisan Calgiciyan
- Murat Iclinalca
- Jerry Hirimyan
Crew
Written and Directed by | Haig Aivazian |
Cinematography | Aytek Erdem |
Editing | Katrin Ebersohn |
Sound Design | Victor Bresse |
Sound | Mert Aksuna |
Casting | Haig Aivazian |
Production Manager | Elif Temizkan |
Produced by
Arab Fund for Arts and Culture
Montreal Biennial 2016
Additional information
Haig Aivazian
Haig Aivazian is an artist living in Beirut. Working across a range of media and modes of address, he delves into the ways in which power embeds, affects, and moves people, objects, animals, landscape, and architecture. Aivazian has explored apparatuses of control and sovereignty at work in sports, museums, the office, and music. He is currently Artistic Co-Director of the Beirut Art Center. His film Not Every Day Is Spring was shown in Forum Expanded in 2017.
Filmography
2011 Into Thin Air into the Ground; 31 min. 2013 How Great You Are O Son of the Desert!; 26 min. 2015 This Lightness I Have Lost it Forever; 35 min. 2016 Not Every Day Is Spring; 46 min., Forum Expanded 2017 2019 Prometheus; 23 min. 2021 All of Your Stars Are but Dust on My Shoes
Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2022