Blue, Revolution and VHS Tapes (2025)
An archival biography in three chapters, exploring the revolutionary potential of being a cinephile... A war pilot, a radical revolutionary, and a cinephile... This is the portrait of a man who left the army and built a successful career as businessman in Europe. Only a few people knew that he was also an undercover member of the resistance movement against Turkey’s military regime in early 1970s. Mekin Gönenç later dedicated most of his life to the movies. When he died after suffering a heart attack while swimming in 2011, he left behind thousands of VHS tapes and meticulously crafted home-made film journals. His death between the two blues he cherished most—the sea and the sky— now give some consolation to his wife. Through archives, we trace the journey of a 20th-century romantic. (DokuFest, Balkan Dox, 2025 )
Director: Serdar Kökçeoğlu
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Güneş Gönenç as |
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Doğan Özgüden as |
| Directing | Serdar Kökçeoğlu | Director |
| Production | Ahmet Gürata | Producer |
| Camera | Tuncer Mert Aydın | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Hazal Bayar | Editor |
| Directing | Yağmur Canpolat | Assistant Director |
| Sound | Koray Kantarcıoğlu | Music |
| Editing | Levent Çetin | Archival Footage Coordinator |
| Writing | Elif Dizdaroğlu | Writer |
| Camera | Ulviye Aleyna Sarıgül | Camera Production Assistant |
