This work addresses an issue with architecture as a witness of the social memory, the process of transformation of soccer field from a cinema and the social impacts of cinema and football. Movies - Silver Screen VII Movies Now Playing Evil Dead Rise New Renfield New The Popes Exorcist The Super Mario Bros. The goalpost in front of the silver screen clarifies the morphological contrast and social history of the cinema. It is easy to notice the traces of these constrained and rushed changes in the place. The cinema “Yıldız” had affected by that change and the place has been changed as enclosed soccer field and billiards saloon. Then, “Basmane” has become a marginalized region. However, in the beginning of the 2000’s, many immigrants came to Izmir and “Basmane” has started to become male-dominated area. “Basmane” is that the region of the movie theater was the city center of Izmir. Video work approaches this transformation from social and architectural perspective. Fun fact: this type of broadening in which something associated with an object or concept takes on the name of that thing is called metonymy. The location and the environment of the cinema have changed because of the fact that urban renewal within years. By the 1920s, the term silver screen moved beyond the literal realm and into metaphorical territory to apply to cinema in general. ![]() ![]() “Yıldız Movie Theater” was opened in the beginning of the 1950’s. Video Installation – Full HD – Color- Sound – 9’24” – 2016
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