THE UNCONCEALMENT SERIES IS A BODY OF SHORT VIDEOS, PHOTOGRAPHS & MUSIC SOUNDTRACK ABOUT ARTISTS’ & NATURE’S DISCLOSURE

�Inspired by German philosopher M. Heidegger’s notion of truth, the Unconcealment videos attempt to exhibit artists and entities of nature unraveling their creative moments in a specific historical epoch. The short videos aim to capture the essence of the artists, and the being and time of nature by filming them in a poetic style.
Unconcealment videos play with light, color and the moment of a disclosure by means of aesthetic cinematography. Unconcealment videos are visual poetry that is completed with the muse of music. With an additional element of cinematic compositions, Unconcealment videos open a way to a feeling of truth.

Unconcealment is a short film about the calling of Francesco Albano. Filmed by Balamir Nazlica in the studio of Francesco Albano unconcealment is an attempt to see through the eyes of an artist and his mood in the moment of his artistic calling.

I always found the journey, the making of art interesting and I remember how Francesco had to endure painful thinking and cause a form of rapture to create Sebastian. Within the artistic rapture comes the unconcealment of a world that the artist brings from another level of consciousness. While we level down to make our daily lives livable(in a sensual way) the artist has to do the opposite-open his senses. He has to widen his senses so that he can unconceal the existing world.

The Unconcealment video series are short films that attempt to capture the moment of artistic inspiration of beings as such. Inspired by Martin Heidegger's use of the term, the videos are engagements of different subjects ready at hand displaying and unconcealing their self-beings.

To capture the seasonal change, Unconcealment 2 was shot over a period of 6 months in Cornwall, Vermont and Higgins Beach, Maine. You can watch the subtle changes of time aided with close up shots of paintings enabling you to enjoy the imaginative cosmos.

Unconcealment III is a short film about the calling of Ugur Caki. Filmed by Balamir Nazlica in the studio of Ugur Caki, Unconcealment III is an attempt to see through the eyes of the artist and his mood in the moment of his artistic calling.
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Uğur Çakı was born in Izmir in 1974. He graduated from the Ceramic Department in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Dokuz Eylül University.
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In 2000, he served as an assistant in the Izmir International Ceramic Symposium, in which he had a chance to observe many local and foreign artists. The new techniques he gained through this experience made positive contributions to his art.

Unconcealment IV is a short film about the calling of Suleyman Saim Tekcan. Filmed by Balamir Nazlica in the studio of Suleyman Saim Tekcan, Unconcealment IV is an attempt to see through the eyes of the artist and his mood in the moment of his artistic calling.

Suleyman Saim Tekcan is one of the key figures of Turkish contemporary art. He founded IMOGA in 2004, which is Turkey's first museum of graphic art. Known both as an honored artist who has participated in countless exhibitions in Turkey and abroad, and as an educator, Tekcan is a well-loved monolith in Turkish print, paint and sculpture.

Unconcealment V is a short film about the calling of Hanefi Yeter. Filmed by Balamir Nazlica in the studio of Hanefi Yeter, Unconcealment V is an attempt to see through the eyes of the artist and his mood in the moment of his artistic calling.

Hanefi Yeter was born in Bayburt in 1947. He graduated from Bedri Rahmi Workshop at the Istanbul State Academy of Fine Art in 1972. He has had over 90 solo exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions in Turkey and abroad. His works can be seen in national and international museums and private collections. In recent years, Yeter has made sculptures as well as paintings and exhibited them in Form works, which have been organized in Ankara, Mersin and Denizli.

Unconcealment VI is a short film about the calling of Mehmet Aksoy. Filmed by Balamir Nazlica in the studio of Mehmet Akosy, Unconcealment VI is an attempt to see through the eyes of the artist and his mood in the moment of his artistic calling.

Mehmet Aksoy is renowned also for the spiritual themes and content of his artworks, reflecting his individual sculptural imagination and metaphorical expressiveness. His works are mainly inspired by the world of shamanic rituals, spirits, mythology and nature. His main materials are stone and metal although in describing his work he states: ”we are not carving stone, we care carving light”. His works play with light, which interacts harmoniously with the sculptures to express shapes and forms.

The Unconcealment short film series is video portraits of artists.
Gazı Sansoy’s video portrait was filmed at Istanbul in 2018. Before the principle photography and film score composition, a series of interviews are conducted with the artist to create a main frame of the narrative. This method enables the Unconcealment videos to contain elements of improvisation along with narrative story stelling. In addition, the video portraits do not carry any dialogue but rather are complimented by the music.
This method separates Unconcealment from classic documentary film making.
The Unconcealment films are inspired by the ideas of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. This inspiration does not contain itself with just the origin of an idea but also finds its way into the style of the film, which is also evident in which materials and objects are added or excluded in the film.
One of the main pillars of M. Heidegger’s philosophy stands on the notion of truth, and truth for M. Heidegger happens through a comportment of humans to things in themselves. Such comportment, brings out the essence of truth. This way of understanding our world is called Unconcealment.
‘‘Unverborgenheit’’ (Unconcealment), was a word the Martin Heidegger used as a translation for the ancient Greek word “alethia”. Heidegger referred to the ‘‘truth’’ as “alethia”.
“Alethia” literally means for a thing to be unveiled, or ‘‘not-concealed.’’ Unconcealment is the idea that what entities truly are depends on the conditions that allow them to manifest themselves. This concept, central to Heidegger’s work, also applies to worlds in a dual sense: first, a condition of entities manifesting themselves is the existence of a world, and second, worlds themselves are disclosed. Unconcealment, therefore, is the most important historical event, and Heidegger believes there have been a number of distinct worlds that have emerged and disappeared in history.
Unconcealment video portraits are attempts at filming the finding of such worlds, with the method described above.

The Unconcealment short film series is video portraits of artists.
Basic Bugay’s video portrait was filmed at Istanbul in 2018. Before the principle photography and film score composition, a series of interviews are conducted with the artist to create a main frame of the narrative. This method enables the Unconcealment videos to contain elements of improvisation along with narrative story stelling. In addition, the video portraits do not carry any dialogue but rather are complimented by the music.
This method separates Unconcealment from classic documentary film making.
The Unconcealment films are inspired by the ideas of German philosopher Martin Heidegger. This inspiration does not contain itself with just the origin of an idea but also finds its way into the style of the film, which is also evident in which materials and objects are added or excluded in the film.
One of the main pillars of M. Heidegger’s philosophy stands on the notion of truth, and truth for M. Heidegger happens through a comportment of humans to things in themselves. Such comportment, brings out the essence of truth. This way of understanding our world is called Unconcealment.
‘‘Unverborgenheit’’ (Unconcealment), was a word the Martin Heidegger used as a translation for the ancient Greek word “alethia”. Heidegger referred to the ‘‘truth’’ as “alethia”.
“Alethia” literally means for a thing to be unveiled, or ‘‘not-concealed.’’ Unconcealment is the idea that what entities truly are depends on the conditions that allow them to manifest themselves. This concept, central to Heidegger’s work, also applies to worlds in a dual sense: first, a condition of entities manifesting themselves is the existence of a world, and second, worlds themselves are disclosed. Unconcealment, therefore, is the most important historical event, and Heidegger believes there have been a number of distinct worlds that have emerged and disappeared in history.
Unconcealment video portraits are attempts at filming the finding of such worlds, with the method described above.