Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
THE RISE AND FALL AND RISE OF DAVID
Davut’un Önlenemeyen Yükselişi, Düşüşü ve Yeniden Yükselişi
Synopsis
Artist Serkan Özkaya spends seven years obsessively attempting to recreate the world’s most famous sculpture, Michelangelo’s David—at twice its original size and washed in gold. The outcome? A sculpture that crumbles to pieces just days before its debut at the Istanbul Biennial.
Synopsis
Artist Serkan Özkaya spends seven years obsessively attempting to recreate the world’s most famous sculpture, Michelangelo’s David—at twice its original size and washed in gold. The outcome? A sculpture that crumbles to pieces just days before its debut at the Istanbul Biennial.
Our take
Part portrait of an artist, part meditation on ambition, failure, and reinvention, Deniz Tortum’s film discovers unexpected grandeur in collapse. Through Serkan Özkaya’s quixotic pursuit of the impossible, it reflects on art’s enduring ability to outlive its own undoing.