Got three minutes? Then you can travel Turkey, north to south, through this shifting and cunningly edited short film, called Watchtower of Turkey, by Leonardo Dalessandri.
He traveled over 3500 kilometers in 20 days, filming the lush landscapes and varied peoples of this middle eastern land, across eight different regions and cities in the Republic of Turkey, a land that has been inhabited since the paleolithic age.
“I’ve crossed Cappadocia, Pamukkale, Ephesus, Istanbul, Konya; and tasted baklava, kunefe, doner, the turkish tea; and got the chance to meet the soul of Turkey, its people,” writes Dalessandri on the video page, “and got their smiles and their hospitality.”
You’ve got to see this short film below.
This is more than a travelogue; you get to see the warm presence of a variety of people captured by Dalessandri’s lens. There are cosmopolitan smiles, rural wisdom, and beautiful human warmth in every face. There are cities, pastoral scenes, and epic landscapes throughout, not to mention the amazing shifts between slow motion and real time imagery.
If you liked the above, be sure to visit Dalessandri’s previous work, Watchtower of Morrocco for more stunning imagery.
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8 responses to “Experience the full rush of traveling Turkey in this epic video”
As someone who has visited Turkey often for lengthy periods, I can tell you that this gives a totally false picture of the country and its people. After watching it, I would never want to ever visit Turkey, which would be a shame.
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Why is this on Cult of Mac?
It’s because of the mysterious Qulte of Traph Hique. Them hique’s in Traph like a lotta volume, a lotta visitors, so they’za gotta put weeeeeird articles called from another mysterious region called “Kleeeque Bayte”. A wweeeeeeeird article on Cult of Mac with nothing to do with Macs or iPhones (unless the vid was recorded on an iPhone or edited on a Mac which is still a short straw to draw) almost guarantees lots of Hique’s from Traph kleeeeequing on the Bayte. It’s simple, really, like all those Hique’s.
Great editing! I am from this region. The images are, naturally, reflective of a tourist’s journey, through Turkey. Perhaps there was not enough footage of the east or many of the ‘other lands’ within Turkey. But, the film is only a short one. Lots of work involved. I missed hearing music from the east. But, that’s the director’s choice…
Correction: There are 7 regions in Turkey, not 8.
iOS 7 regions?
After seeing all these old churches did you ever wondered where the Christians have gone?