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# Interview with film director Ogulcan Atayo

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This is an interview with film director Ogulcan Atayol who directed "Extremely Personal Documentary", presented at the festival of music in cinema, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

- Are you interested in the relevance of music in cinema?  
Of course I'm interested.
- - Did you study film?

No, I studied photography at undergraduate and postgraduate level. I did not study film.

- -What was your first foray into cinema?

While studying photography at university, I always tried to take cinematic photographs. I wanted each frame to look like it was from a film. Eventually, still images weren't enough. So I taught myself to shoot and edit a few videos. At the time, YouTube had only been around for three years, and there weren't many ‘how-to’ videos available. So I taught myself. Then, while searching for the intersection between this and my other passion, motorcycles, I started working as a cameraman and editor on the most famous motorcycle show of the time, Altın Elbiseli Adam (The Man in the Golden Suit). When I started producing my own content for this programme, I always created cinematic content. At the same time, I started working as a director of photography on short films. Years later, in 2024, I completed my first feature-length documentary film, marking my debut as a director.

- -Are you interested in cinema as art, industry or entertainment?

Absolutely. I am building my future career in this field.

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- -In which category does your film intervene at this festival?

It is primarily entered in the ‘Best documentary about music’ category, but I have also submitted it to other relevant subcategories.

- -Do you have projects in progress?   
I am currently working on a photography project and two film projects concurrently.
- - Do you recognize influences in your work?   
I did not make this film specifically because I was influenced by someone else's work. It is the biggest project I have undertaken in my life, a whole that I have created by taking inspiration from everything I have seen and read up to now, and which I consider to be unique.
- - How do you get financing?  
I financed the entire project myself. I made and completed the film on my own. Afterwards, I needed funding to start the festival circuit, and after applying to many places, I realised that funding is not provided for completed films. So I had to cover all the festival submission fees myself. However, this experience taught me how to proceed in order to obtain funding for my next film.
- - Do you see the cinema as a definitive profession or only occasionally venture?   
I am striving to make it a definite profession.
- - What is your concept of cinema that interests you?  
First and foremost, I love the "realistic" approach to cinema. Every fiction has its own world and its own rules. But realism begins, above all, by not treating the audience like fools. I want to progress towards a realism that won't make people say, "that only happens in films anyway.".

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