1994 yılında olmalı, Berlin Hahn Film Benjamin Blümchen video filmleri serisi içinde bir ortadoğu öyküsü canlandırmayı üstlenmişti. "Tapınak Kedisinin Sırrı" (Das Geheimnis der Tempelkatze) adındaki bu bölümün bir göbek dansı sekansı içerdiğini öğrenince o sekansın tamamını canlandırmaya gönüllü oldum- Avrupalılara bırakamazdım ya! O sırada Ankara'da oturuyorduk ve canlandırmaları oradan yapıp gönderdim. ("Tahsin Lâle Özgür Animasyon Tic. Ltd. Şti." adına!)
Seneler sonra, Disney Paris'te Tarzan filminde çalışırken birisi (1997, belki 98) o sırada Dreamworks'ın yapılmakta olan "Mısır Prensi" filmi için hazırlanmış deneme canlandırmaları getirdi içeren bir kaset getirdi. Bir tanesi ortadoğu dansı yapan bir kadın figürüydü (bitmiş filmde göremedim). Güzeldi, ama benim bildiğim göbek dansı değildi. "Bu iş böyle yapılır" edasıyla bir göbek dansözü canlandırdım- kaba tabii! Arkadaşlara gösterdim, sonra işimize döndük. Resimleri sakladım!
Türkiye'ye döner dönmez Karaköy'de Kasa Galeri'de "Çizime Farklı Yaklaşımlar" karma sergisine davet edilince resimleri ortaya çıkardım.Kaba çizimleri temizlemedimse de mavi kalemle "bağladım". Canlandırma sanatını tanıtan bir videoklip hazırlayıp rakkasemi içine uyarladım, resimlerin kendileri de videoyla birlikte sergilendi. (26 Ocak-16 Şubat 2000) Ben o montajı başka yerde yayınlamadım (bir gün altyazı eklerim diye) ama internette yayınlayan olmuş. Sonunda şirket belgeselimiz de var. Birinin başı, öbürünün sonu kesik ama yine de bakın isterseniz: "Tahsin Özgür Belgeseli".Bu sergiye katkılarımdan etkelenen Galeri Apel'den "2001 Gece Masalları" karma sergisi için davet aldım (5 Ocak-4 şubat 2001). O sergi için değişik bir mizansenle yeni bir klip yaptım, bunun için yeni canlandırmalar da ilave ettim- rakkasemin yerden ayağı kalkışı gibi. O klibi burada paylaştım. Bkz: "2001 Gece Masalları", 11 Eylül 2010.
Şimdi rakkasemin resimlerini tarayarak daha kaliteli bir klip yapma imkânım oldu; onu da burada sunuyorum.
Videoklip/ Videoclip
Benjamin Blümchen Das Geheimnis der Tempelkatze, 1995.
("Tapınak Kedisinin Gizemi"/ "The Mystery of the Temple-Cat")
göbek dansı sekansı/ belly dance sequence.
RAKKASEM- MY DANCER from tahsinozgur on Vimeo.
Videoklip/Videoclip
Rakkasem/ My Dancer
1997(?)/2000
ENGLISH
Animaton and dance are really sister arts, since the essence of both is movement. And dance can look great in animation. I may be a lousy dancer myself, but I take great pleasure in animating dancing characters. And I certainly look down upon belly dancing, for so long a part of our culture.
It must have been 1994, Hahn Film Berlin undertook the production of the Das Geheimnis der Tempelkatze ("The Mystery of the Temple-Cat"), a middle-eastern adventure in the direct-to-video Benjamin Blümchen series. When I heard there was to be a belly dancing sequence, I volunteered to animate all of it- I could't let the Europeans mess that up, could I? We were living in Ankara at the time, so I worked from there and sent the scenes over (billed for "Tahsin Lâle Özgür Animasyon Tic. Ltd. Şti.").
Years later, while working at Disney Paris on Tarzan (probably 1997 if not '98) someone brought in a cassette of experimental animation for The Prince of Egypt, then in production at Dreamworks. There was a dancing female figure, which I did not spot in the final film. It was fine, but far from the belly dance that I was used to seeing. I took it as a challenge and animated a belly dancer, rough of course, with the air of "this is how it's done fellas!" I showed it to my friends and we all went back to work. But I kept the drawings!
Shortly after our return to Turkey I was invited to a joint exhibition on the theme of "Different Approaches to Drawing". I took out the roughs and tied them down with blue pencil. I prepared a video explaining the process of animation and integrated the animated dancer into it. The drawings were exhibited with the video. The venue was the "Kasa Gallery", inside an unused, cavernous safe in an old bank building in Istanbul's Karaköy district (January 26th to February 6th, 2000). I never shared that video online, though I meant to; I always hoped I could add subtitles. But others have.Here's one with our "company demo" added; there are chunks missing from the beginning of one and the end of the other though: "Tahsin Özgür Belgeseli" ("Tahsin Özgür Documentary").
Apparently impressed by my contributions to this exhibition, Galeri Apel invited me to the "2001 Nights" joint exhibition (January 5th to February 4th 2001). I shot and edited together a new video corresponding to the theme, and made some new animation of my dancer, including the bit where she gets up from the floor. I did share that video on this blog. See: "Tales of 2001 Nights", 11 Eylül- September 2010.
Now that I have the possibility of scanning the drawings rather than shooting with a camera, I have put together a higher quality video of my dancer, which I am presenting herewith.
Apparently impressed by my contributions to this exhibition, Galeri Apel invited me to the "2001 Nights" joint exhibition (January 5th to February 4th 2001). I shot and edited together a new video corresponding to the theme, and made some new animation of my dancer, including the bit where she gets up from the floor. I did share that video on this blog. See: "Tales of 2001 Nights", 11 Eylül- September 2010.
Now that I have the possibility of scanning the drawings rather than shooting with a camera, I have put together a higher quality video of my dancer, which I am presenting herewith.
