Faculty Member, Western Languages and Literatures, Film Program
About
Can Candan is an independent filmmaker and a lecturer at Bogazici University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has a BA from Hampshire College in film and video, and an MFA (a terminal degree, comparable to a PhD in other disciplines) from Temple University in film and media arts. As a filmmaker since 1989, his works have been screened internationally at festivals, conferences, in galleries and on television. He has taught film courses and workshops, both in universities and media education centers in the United States and in Turkey. He is a founding member of docIstanbul Center for Documentary Studies (http://docistanbul.blogspot.com) which organized the 2010 Visible Evidence Conference.
He is currently teaching a documentary history & theory course and a film project course; filming a new feature documentary on parents of LGBTT individuals; curating a documentary series and hosting a documentary interview program on IMC-TV (www.imc-tv.com); and working on the Turkish translation of Bill Nichols' "Introduction to Documentary, 2nd edition" to be published by Bogazici University Press.
Filmography:
"MY CHILD" (in production): a feature-length documentary about a very courageous and inspiring group of mothers and fathers in Turkey, who are parents of lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-gender individuals. (www.listagfilm.com)
"ÇATALHÖYÜK" (in production): a feature-length documentary about Çatalhöyük, the world famous archeological site of a nine thousand year-old Neolithic settlement in the central plains of Turkey, and its contemporary multi-sited existence through the activities of diverse groups of people around the world.
“3 HOURS” (2008): a feature-length documentary witnessing six Istanbul high-school seniors’ year-long trials and tribulations to have the right to study at a university. (www.3saat.net) - DVD on sale on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Saat-Bir-%C3%96SS-Belgeseli-DVD/dp/B003WBOPOQ and elsewhere on the net.
“DUVARLAR, MAUERN, WALLS” (2000): a feature-length documentary about the Turkish immigrant community in post-Wall Berlin, Germany. (http://duvarlarmauernwalls.blogspot.com/) In distribution by Arsenal: http://films.arsenal-berlin.de/index.php/Detail/Object/Show/object_id/
“EXODUS” (1991): a short documentary about the 1989 exodus of ethnic Turks from Bulgaria (http://exodusfilm.blogspot.com/)
“BOYCOTT COKE” (1989): a short agit-prop video about the anti-Apartheid Coca-Cola boycott.
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