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.
