COLONIAL GLITCHES, ENTANGLED AFFAIRS
Heads and Tails
Baştan Başa
Directors
Aylin Kuryel
Fırat Yücel
Producers
Aylin Kuryel
Fırat Yücel
Cinematographers
Aylin Kuryel
Fırat Yücel
Rasel Meseri
Editors
Aylin Kuryel
Fırat Yücel
Sound
Fatih Ragbet
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2019
Turkey
59 min
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Heads and Tails chronicles the curious hair trade between Turkey and Israel. Two Turkish-Israeli women, Coya and Sima, get the tails of hair from male hair traders from Turkey and sell them to wig makers in Tel Aviv, Ramat Gan and Bnei Brak. Orthodox Jewish women cover their heads with the wigs made of the hair once belonged to women from Anatolia. In this journey, the hair is turned into a commodity, a means of living and source of beauty, becomes kosher, yet doesn’t pay much to its owner, the one who carefully grows the hair.
Director
Aylin Kuryel has a PhD degree from Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA) at the University of Amsterdam. Currently, she is based in Amsterdam teaching at the University of Amsterdam. She has made art projects/exhibitions and has completed several short documentaries.
Fırat Yücel is a film critic and a filmmaker. He co-founded Altyazı Monthly Cinema Magazine in 2001, and worked as the magazine’s editor in chief since then.
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