Neighbouring Sounds (Ali Kivanc Guldurur) Turkey, UK |

Neighbouring Sounds
Ali Kivanc Guldurur
Turkey, UK. 2022. 18 min

Bilal and Aylin, a young married couple, overhear a domestic battery in their neighborhood late at night. Despite his initial disregard for the situation, Bilal works up a curiosity which paves the way for an unwanted exposure.

ALI KIVANC GULDURUR

Ali Kıvanç Güldürür was born in Izmir, Turkey in 1991. After completing his studies at Bilkent University’s Department of American Culture and Literature in Ankara, he enrolled at the London Film School to study filmmaking where he has worked on numerous projects as a writer, director, editor and sound recordist. Neighbouring Sounds is his graduation film from the London Film School.

DIRECTOR’S NOTE

I value stories and the kind of filmmaking that reflect upon behaviours, reflexes and anxieties of the times that they’re being made in. The story of “Neighbouring Sounds” derives from the actuality of everyday life in contemporary Turkey where violence is rampant, its perpetrators untouchable and our sense of security is nothing but a mere illusion.
It is a reflection on human behaviour; how it takes form within a reality that grinds even the slightest tenacity to ‘do the right thing’. It exhibits the ways in which the ‘outside’ creeps into the ‘private’, although both notions seem separable at first glance.