Taskafa, Stories of the Street.
Structured around readings by renowned critic and essayist John Berger, TASKAFA offers a brilliantly incisive meditation on urban space and city life by investigating the complex history of Istanbul’s street dogs. Despite several major attempts by Istanbul's rulers, politicians and planners ove...
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
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| Language: | English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
Grasshopper Film,
2013.
Kanopy Streaming, 2019. |
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| Summary: | Structured around readings by renowned critic and essayist John Berger, TASKAFA offers a brilliantly incisive meditation on urban space and city life by investigating the complex history of Istanbul’s street dogs. Despite several major attempts by Istanbul's rulers, politicians and planners over the last 400 years to erase them, the city’s street dogs have persisted thanks to an enduring alliance with widespread civilian communities, which recognize and defend their right to co-exist. TASKAFA gathers the voices of diverse Istanbul residents, shopkeepers, and street based workers, all of whom display a striking commitment to the well-being and future of the city’s canine population (a community of street dogs, and cats, free of formal ownership but fed and cared for by numerous individuals). It is a moving testimonial to the inestimable value of non-human populations to the emotional and psychological health of the city, and a striking statement of witness both to advocacy and persecution across the centuries. Official Selection, **Berlin Film Festival** |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film In Process Record. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (67 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |