A Painter's Journey

Salih works as a night watchman at a town cemetery. Every afternoon he comes to the guard shack and goes back before sunrise. Despite his advanced age, he walks the same 2 kilometers every day. Because of his job, he turned in on himself and has been detached from the real life. The things he experiences on the road, strange men coming to his hut at night and the young girl in Salih’s endless dreams lead him into deep paranoia. Reality and illusion is indistinguishable... Until the first lights of the day...

Yılmaz is a young man stuck between his dreams and his father in a small town in Anatolia. His greatest dream is to buy a small tractor (patpat) that will pave the way for him to start his own business. However, both his father and the living conditions in the region stand as major obstacles even to his smallest dream. Yılmaz, along with his close friend who also wanders aimlessly in pursuit of his dreams, chases after new and different opportunities every day.

The History of Early Erotic Cinema presents the fascinating historical journey of how, with the invention of the film camera, all the sexual fantasies and fictions previously hidden and repressed in human consciousness were projected onto the screen, breaking existing taboos. It takes viewers on a unique and in-depth journey into the unknown earliest examples of erotic film collections that pushed the boundaries of pornography, and into the understanding and aesthetics of sexuality in the early 1900s. It tells the story of the transformation from amateur films dealing with sexuality during the silent film era to a multi-million dollar pornography industry that commodified and marketed sexuality.