Usmanbaş: Modernist
Modernist: Usmanbaş
“Music is math, science, and modernist openness.”
Synopsis
Türkiye’s modernization adventure is an intermittent one that carries the pains of transition from empire to republic and of geographical liminality in every aspect of culture. At the center of this arduous modernist attitude in art is İlhan Usmanbaş, who was born in 1921 in the Ottoman Empire, whose atonal music of the 1950s influenced not only the field of music but also literature. As an essay film, Modernist: Usmanbaş both traces the composer's insistence on playing 20th century music in his compositions and visual notation and follows him in the private nursing home where he lived from the age of 100 to 103. While the film records Usmanbaş's curiosity in natural history and the intellectual structure he built between music, science and mathematics with the testimonies of the last years of his life, it also makes references to modernist art in formal terms as a meta attitude.
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- Director
- Serdar Kökçeoğlu
- Original Title
- Modernist: Usmanbaş
- Country of Origin
- Turkey
- Spoken Languages
- Turkish
- Runtime
- 40m
- Production Studios
- Atonal Films
Creative Leadership & Key Crew
Serdar Kökçeoğlu
Hazal Bayar
Elif Dizdaroğlu, Serdar Kökçeoğlu
Department Leadership Roster
Elif Dizdaroğlu
Producer
Serdar Kökçeoğlu
Producer
Serdar Kökçeoğlu
Director
Hazal Bayar
Editor
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What is Usmanbaş: Modernist about?
Türkiye’s modernization adventure is an intermittent one that carries the pains of transition from empire to republic and of geographical liminality in every aspect of culture. At the center of this arduous modernist attitude in art is İlhan Usmanbaş, who was born in 1921 in the Ottoman Empire, whose atonal music of the 1950s influenced not only the field of music but also literature. As an essay film, Modernist: Usmanbaş both traces the composer's insistence on playing 20th century music in his compositions and visual notation and follows him in the private nursing home where he lived from the age of 100 to 103. While the film records Usmanbaş's curiosity in natural history and the intellectual structure he built between music, science and mathematics with the testimonies of the last years of his life, it also makes references to modernist art in formal terms as a meta attitude.
Who directed Usmanbaş: Modernist?
Usmanbaş: Modernist was directed by Serdar Kökçeoğlu.
Who stars in Usmanbaş: Modernist?
The principal cast of Usmanbaş: Modernist includes İlhan Usmanbaş.
When was Usmanbaş: Modernist released and how long is it?
Usmanbaş: Modernist was released in the theatrical window with a total runtime of 40m.