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THE WALLS OF THE WORLD: Burhan DOGANCAY

Two Awards Winning Program
1998, Northeast Video Festival, First Place in Arts category
1999, Hometown Video Festival, Special Juri Award

Cablecasting : August 10 , 1999 at 8:00 p.m., at QPTV Channel #57 and
Dates            : August 27, 1999 a.m., at QPTV Channel #34
Length         : 28:30 min.
Producer & Director:  Bircan Unver
Language: English

The program "The Walls of the World"  based on, one of the prominent Turkish painter and photographer Burhan Dogancay's major photograph/slide archive ìThe Walls of the Worldî. During the past three decades, Dogancay has worked on this unprecedented, massive and unique project, documenting the walls of the world with his camera. The result is a collection of more than 20,000 photographs from 104 countries, parts of which have been displayed in museums around the world and published in the books. The video program explores  Dogancay's photographs from the walls of the world, particularly his "Love and Sex", and "Politics and Wits" themes. Interviews are given by artist Burhan Dogancay, his wife Angela Dogancay, Mey Elbi (Sociology, major), publisher Bill Corsa.

Burhan Dogancay was born in 1932, in Istanbul, Turkey and he has been living in New York since 1962. Dogancay began to take photographs of New York during 1962, then it has evolved into a passion. He has taken photographs of the walls of the world since then. The wall images and wits also have been inspiring the artist in his sculpture and paintings. Dogancay presents a diversity of cultural symbols, images, expressions like love, hate, and either critics or supporters of the political practices of each nation throughout The Walls of the World  project. In this respect, Dogancay photographs bring together many cultures as an archive of our near past, as well as a panorama of our time.

The program has aimed to reach all the diverse groups of people. They will acknowledge this great archive and relate with their own culture. This is a remarkable diverse panorama, especially, for those who live in New York.

The program "The Walls of the World"  was produced & directed by Bircan Ünver, and completed in June 1998, through Queens Public Television facilities Flushing, New York. "I am, Voice of the Walls" and biography were written and interviews conducted by Bircan Ünver, and poem narrated by John J. Culkin and Vanessa Cavaco.

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