BALKAN DOX
Blue, Revolution and VHS Tapes
Mavi, Devrim ve VHS Kasetler
Director
Serdar Kökçeoğlu
Producer
Ahmet Gürata
Cinematographer
Tuncer Mert Aydın
Editor
Hazal Bayar
Sound
Hazal Bayar
Serdar Kökçeoğlu
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Ahmet Gürata
2025
Turkey
16 min 44 sec
Color
A war pilot, revolutionary, and cinephile Mekin Gönenç left the army to become a businessman, while secretly joining the resistance against Turkey’s 1970s military regime. Later, he devoted his life to cinema, leaving behind thousands of VHS tapes and hand-made film journals. Through archives, a portrait of a 20th-century romantic emerges.
Director
Serdar Kökçeoğlu considers himself a storyteller of music. He lectures at universities on documentary and sound design, and every summer, he co-directs a summer school dedicated to experimental film. In 2025, he curated the Mimaroğlu Remix Project.
Other films in BALKAN DOX
A Strange Colour of Dream
Antigona
Bright Future
Ceasefire
Greetings from Secretariat
Human Fiction
I Have Never Been on An Airplane
Inventory
Lavender
Merging Bodies
Possibility of Paradise
Soil and Wings
Stars of Roma Termini
The Divided City of Mitrovica
The Mountain Won't Move
The Track
TWST - Things We Said Today
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