Jane Campion

When I'm back in Istanbul and I have time to think of what to do next, I first go to a movie store for plunder. Feels like home in a way. The collection here roughly adds up to 500 films and I'm not happy with the fact that they don't fit in the shelves anymore. But I am more than happy with the exceptional quality of some of these art pieces. Some directors rarely disappoint. One director who is a new recruit in my trusted-directors-stack is Jane Campion. She is a success in explaining what it means to be a woman. You can have an introduction peek at her rather light movies below:

"Poe"tic Dream

  

   Take this kiss upon the brow!
   And, in parting from you now,
   Thus much let me avow--
   You are not wrong, who deem
   That my days have been a dream;
   Yet if hope has flown away
   In a night, or in a day,
   In a vision, or in none,
   Is it therefore the less gone?
   All that we see or seem
   Is but a dream within a dream.

   I stand amid the roar
   Of a surf-tormented shore,
   And I hold within my hand
   Grains of the golden sand--
   How few! yet how they creep
   Through my fingers to the deep,
   While I weep--while I weep!
   O God! can I not grasp
   Them with a tighter clasp?
   O God! can I not save
   One from the pitiless wave?
   Is all that we see or seem
   But a dream within a dream?


   Edgar Allan Poe

are you happy? think again.

Nobel laureate and founder of behavioral economics Daniel Kahneman reveals how our "experiencing selves" and our "remembering selves" perceive happiness differently. This new insight has profound implications for economics, public policy and our own self-awareness.

Sonisphere Festival / Turkey

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