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Turkey once had one of the most productive film industries in the world, with an annual production of 250 to 300 films a year. The popular films made in this ‘Yeşilçam period’ elevated copying and mixing well-known genre conventions almost to an art form. In addition, partly because of the lack of laws on copyright, many remakes of Hollywood classics emerged. From Rocky to The Exorcist and from The Wizard of Oz to Star Wars: all acquired an often bizarre Turkish version that was literally and metaphorically translated to meet local needs.
In an industry where Turkish actors could easily play in several hundred films, every trick of the trade was fully exploited: genre clichés, borrowed soundtracks, even plagiarism. Messy rush jobs or self-conscious B-movies? Appropriating visual motifs can be either a way of establishing a dialogue with the other or holding up a fairground mirror to them.
In his documentary essay, Cem Kaya investigates this Turkish copy culture and shows how inventively local studios tackled foreign film material; the minimum of means was used to still the continuous film appetites of Turkish audiences. In addition, he looks at the relationship between this film industry and historic and topical Turkish subjects such as internationalisation, censorship and the advent of television.
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Reviews
blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/goteborg-review-uproarious-doc-celebrates-mourns-the-turkish-movie-culture-of-remake-remix-rip-off-20150126
birthmoviesdeath.com/2015/09/25/fantastic-fest-review-remake-remix-rip-off
twitchfilm.com/2015/09/letrange-2015-review-remake-remix-rip-off-is-a-raucuous-joyride.html
theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/24/the-wild-world-of-turkish-b-movies
wegotthiscovered.com/movies/remake-remix-ripoff-review-fantastic-fest-2015/
theknockturnal.com/remake-remix-rip-off-surprisingly-original/
cinapse.co/2015/10/02/remix-remake-rip-off-copy-culture-turkish-pop-cinema-fantastic-fest-2015/
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Interviews
bantmag.com/english/issue/post/34/133
physicalimpossibility.com/2015/08/28/interview-cem-kaya-director-of-remake-remix-rip-off/
physicalimpossibility.com/2015/08/30/interview-cem-kaya-director-of-remake-remix-rip-off-pt-ii/
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Festivals
Locarno Film Festival
Rotterdam Film Festival
Berlin Film Festival (Lola Section)
Seminci Cine de Autor, Valladolid
IDFF Yamagata, Japan
EBS, South Korea
Fantasia, Montréal, Canada
Sitges Intl. Film Festival, Spain
Fantastic Fest, Austin, USA
Edinburgh IFF, GB
Barcelona Docs, Spain
Doc Aviv, Israel
Dokfest München, Germany
Hong Kong Asian Film Festival
Festival do Rio, Brazil
Göteborg Film Festival, Sweden
Adana Golden Boll Film Festival, Turkey
Festival on Wheels, Ankara Turkey
!f Istanbul
Saarbrücken Max Ophüls Preis, Germany
Silkroad Film Festival, Dublin
Istanbul Film Festival (On The Bridge)
Indie Lisboa, Portugal
Docs against Gravity, Warsaw
Transilvania IFF, Cluj-Napoca
Documentarist Istanbul
German Films Madrid
Intl. Film Festival Innsbruck, Austria
Syros Intl. Film Festival, Greece
Guanajuato Film Festival, Mexico
Documentaqro, Queretaro, Mexico
Docs DS, Mexico City, Mexico
L´Étrange Festival, Paris
Focus on Asia, Fukuoka, Japan
Cine Migrante, Buenos Aires
Sydney Underground Film Festival (Australian Premiere)
Melbourne Underground Film Festival
BUT Festival, Breda, Netherlands
Festival del Cine Aleman, Buenos Aires
Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Kanada
Helsinki IFF
Minneapolis Underground Film Festival
Türkisches Filmfestival Frankfurt
Film 4 Fright Fest, London
Films from the South, Oslo (Norway Premiere)
IFF Split, Kroatien
Extreme Festival, Cinématheque Toulouse
Corne d’Or FF, Montreal, Kanada
Filmfest Osnabrück
Boston Turkish Film Festival
Tempofestival, Stockholm
Colchester Film Festival, GB
Razorreel Film Festival, Brügge, Belgium
A Vingança Dos Filmes B, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Turkish FF Toronto, Canada
Dokfest, Prizren, Kosovo
Ege Belgesel Film Günleri, Izmir, Turkey
Isçi Filmleri Festivali, Istanbul
Zinema Zombie Fest, Bogota, Colombia
Monsters of Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
Hawaii International Film Festival
Turkish FF Toronto, Kanada
Vancouver Golden Horn FF, Kanada
Ithaca Fantastic Film Festival, USA
Cineuropa Santiago de Compostela
SCUM, Singapur
Bratislava International Film Festival
Kinofest Lünen
Filmschau Baden Württemberg
Shivers Genre Film Festival, Konstanz
Turkish Film Festival New York, USA
International Film Festival of Uruguay
Belfast Film Festival, Northern Ireland
Bialystok Underground Film Festival
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Awards
Documentarist Istanbul 2015 / FIPRESCI Award
Doku Fest Prizren 2015 / Audience Award
Shivers Film Festival 2015 / Audience Award
