A film by Vincent Moon
Produced by Petites Planètes, Rana Gorgani, Souffle Collectif
Images & sounds by Vincent Moon
Filmed at the Mevlana Cultural Center, Konya
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« It’s a packed evening - the most spectacular event of the Seb-I Arus week is happening: the very large and official Sema of Konya’s Mevlana Cultural Center.
Sema means “listening”, a notion of divine prayer while whirling infinitely, and is a central part of the Sufi practices. But I never saw such a gigantic one - 37 dervishes are on. The arena is what a modern circus could look like, and there is a strange and beautiful interaction in between the super show and the mass - it all starts with a collective prayer, and ends with it. The music is gorgeous, the dances and phases of the rite perfectly articulated. Turkish Sufi power for the masses - quite fascinating. »
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A film of the collection “Impressions from Konya” - 10 short films on Sufi ceremonies in Konya, recorded in December 2023 during the Seb-i Arus, the week celebrating the 750 years of the voyage to the stars of Rumi, the Mevlana
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WATCH THE COMPLETE PLAYLIST - • IMPRESSIONS FROM KONYA
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10 films from the official and impressive Sema ceremony with 37 whirling dervishes to the long nights of dancing at Hiçhane or outside the mausoleum, from various collaborations of Sufi dancer Rana Gorgani with Ozgur Baba or Sadegh Azmand to entrancing circles all over. A cinema trip into the heart of modern and ancient sufism.
#konya #sebiarus #turkey #rumi #mevlana #sufism
Filmed by @vincentmoon, sounds by Julien Colardelle
Produced by Petites Planètes, Rana Gorgani, and Souffle Collectif
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About PETITES PLANÈTES
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Petites Planètes is an ongoing project comprised of films, music recordings, cinema performances, and immersive installations.
An independent production company created by french artists Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon, Collection Petites Planètes' aim is to explore the boundaries between cinema, music, and expanded forms of modern rituals. Our vision moves between the realms of documentary creation, ethnographic research, and filmic experimentation.
Our entire work is shared under a Creative Commons license, making it available to everybody, acknowledging the fact that we are only bridges between spiritual and material realities and that we are in no way creating from scratch.
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