Usmanbaş: Modernist
"Music is math, science, and modernist openness."
Usmanbaş: Modernist is a documentary/music film. directed by Serdar Kökçeoğlu. At just 40 minutes, it's a tight, focused story.
Starring İlhan Usmanbaş
Synopsis
Türkiye’s modernization adventure is an intermittent one that carries the pains of transition from empire to republic and of geographical liminality in every aspect of culture. At the center of this arduous modernist attitude in art is İlhan Usmanbaş, who was born in 1921 in the Ottoman Empire, whose atonal music of the 1950s influenced not only the field of music but also literature. As an essay film, Modernist: Usmanbaş both traces the composer's insistence on playing 20th century music in his compositions and visual notation and follows him in the private nursing home where he lived from the age of 100 to 103. While the film records Usmanbaş's curiosity in natural history and the intellectual structure he built between music, science and mathematics with the testimonies of the last years of his life, it also makes references to modernist art in formal terms as a meta attitude.
Quick Facts
Runtime
0h 40m
40 minutes total
Language
TR
Original language
Country
Turkey
Production
Director
Top Cast
Production Details
- Status
- Released
- Original Language
- TR
Production Companies
- Atonal Films
Frequently Asked Questions
What is Usmanbaş: Modernist about?
Türkiye’s modernization adventure is an intermittent one that carries the pains of transition from empire to republic and of geographical liminality in every aspect of culture. At the center of ...
Who directed Usmanbaş: Modernist?
Usmanbaş: Modernist was directed by Serdar Kökçeoğlu.
How long is Usmanbaş: Modernist?
Usmanbaş: Modernist has a runtime of 0 hours and 40 minutes (40 minutes total).
Who are the main actors in Usmanbaş: Modernist?
The main cast of Usmanbaş: Modernist includes İlhan Usmanbaş.