Korkuluk

If Ayşegül Şahinbozkır's short film "Milk"and Adem Demirci's short film "Scarecrow" hadn't received the jury special awards at The Los Angeles Turkish Film Festival (LATFF-2012)local cineastes wouldn't probably have heard about these two original short movies which offer a breath of fresh art for the Turkish cinema which sounds like, every now and then, it runs out of original stories as much as good, well laid out adaptations. Since both movies are available for free viewing on vimeo, everybody who has some passion for the silver screen should just go and see these movies to who some support for the laudable efforts of these two young filmmakers. However much I like the art of cinema, I can't seem to like movies with scanty dialogue and too much symbolism. For that matter, I am surprised that I actually liked Adem Demirci's Scarecrow because there's no dialogue in the movie.The scarecrow tells the story of a young woman grieving the loss of her husband. It seems like she just can't come to terms with her loss and she imputed her the fear,the sense of insecurity which her husband imposed on her,to a scarecrow after her husband's death. As much as there's symbolism in her story, Damla Sönmez's most convincing portrayal of this young woman,who's torn apart between her sense of bereavement and her fears,turns this symbolism into some art that can be reified into a social reality that the audience can be easily empathized with.