aikaterini gegisian & fatma çiftçi 
beethoven vs. chopin;
transandantal aşka doğru
beethoven vs. chopin;
towards transcendental love

Fatma Çiftçi and Aikaterini Gegisian will discuss the links between their individual and collaborative projects. They will focus on a work entitled Beethoven vs Chopin funded by the Artist’s International Development Fund (Arts Council England and British Council).

Beethoven VS Chopin is a short film collage constructed out of fragments of two films that share the same plot: To pio labro asteri (The most bright star), a musical produced in Greece in 1967, which was transformed into a romance, entitled Kara Gözlüm (The black-eyed one) and produced in Turkey in 1970. The two films are juxtaposed with a third film, Some Like it Hot, a comedy produced in Hollywood in 1959.

Although the Greek and Turkish films are led by two strong female stars that highlight the position of the working woman active in the pubic sphere, the short collage film focuses instead on their male protagonists that go by the nicknames of Beethoven and Chopin. In an attempt to avoid deconstructing once again the way the female body has been represented in popular cinema, Beethoven VS Chopin is concerned with a questioning of gender relationships through the exploration of masculinity from the point of view of two female artists.