Hi Denizhan again,
I am very sorry for my late reply. I was talking about my “living abroad” experience in Paris. It was a good experience for me because it provided me a new perspective, a kind of discharge if you want. However Batman is the place which keeps me inspired. I produce more here, projects come to my mind any minute. It is the source of my artistic creation if you want. For example in “Batman vs Batman”, one of my recent video works, (I filmed it in 2009) the city is the leading actor in a way. Maybe there are people who read the dialogues and don’t know about Batman. So I will make a brief introduction. Batman is a city within the borders of Turkey, near Northern Iraq with a predominantly Kurdish population. Unfortunately it has been known with a high suicide rate amongst women and unaccounted murders by unknown assailants. It is also an important oil producing area. Despite all of these sad and depressing sides it inspires me, it is true. Almost in every video that I have realized I portrayed short life stories from Batman.
And since a long time I had been thinking of a project on Batman and in 2009 I made “Batman vs. Batman”. In 2008 the mayor of Batman city, Hüseyin Kalkan, tried to sue Christopher Nolan and Warner Bros, which owns the right to the superhero Batman character. He blame them for using the name of the city without informing them. Although internationally the case wasn’t taken seriously or derided, I turned the event into a superhero story, similar to Batman movies. And in my video I associated the mayor with the superhero because the mayor wanted to spend the money that he will have from lawsuit to resolve the problems of the city, like the Dark Knight who fights crime in Gotham City.
