Yakup Girpan
Aleph - Film - 2010
presented as part of the exhibition Panorama 12
Film
Aleph is a restless wandering between two worlds, visible and invisible In the hole of a tree, a tortoise watches a sleeping woman A man with torn clothes is lying next to a waterfall...
The mirror that separates them and reflects them are embodied in the natural elements. They are the beginning and the end. The only permanence is embodied in them.
Shadows, fire and wind. The border between the real and imaginary is permanently questioned. An inbetween where time no longer exists. Aleph takes the form of an
initiation, of a quest through magic and haunted places where the contours are inclined to disappear then appear in the dream or the reality of the characters.
From this presence-absence a tension is born between allegory and mystery. Aleph is analogical matter with the poetic logic of dreams. "The aim that guided him
was not impossible although it was supernatural. He wanted to dream it with minute integrity and impose it on reality/existence." (Jorge Luis Borges, The Circular ruins)
