FROM PORCELAIN TO IZNIK’S CERAMICS Fağfur’dan Çini’ye

The film takes place in a workshop of Iznik in the 16th century. A researcher-narrator explains how the ceramic masters, in their search for porcelain find the “Çini”. The hero, Bahtiyar Usta (Master Bahtiyar), is a real Çini Usta in nowadays Iznik; and his two sons, enliving his youth, are also ceramists. COLIN MOUNIER Colin Mounier (France, 1942) graduated in a cinema school in Paris – France. Throughout his career he worked as  assistant, camera operator, and director of photography. Alterning feature films and documentaries, he has been one of the many cameramen who worked with Captan Cousteau. In 1985 he moved to Istanbul and went on shooting features for television or cinema, and had time to work on many many films. With the “digital” he was able to work again for documentaries. Mounier and his wife, who is a writer, moved to Iznik - the city of “Çinis” - when they retired, and they started the project which became “Fağfur’dan Çini’ye / From Porcelain to Iznik’s Ceramics”.

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 2018 8:00 pm Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Remis Auditorium 465 Huntington Avenue Boston In Competition Directed by Colin Mounier Doc. / 47 min. / 2017 Films in this session: Somewhere in Black Sea / Karadeniz'de Bir Yer Trapped in the Euphrates / Fırat’ın Tutsağı From Porcelain to Iznik's Ceramics / Fağfur’dan Çini’ye