09th
July 2007 - The old master of black tents cannot build
us a new tent due to family troubles. He has to take
care for his people as first priority and we hope
that all turns out well for him and his family. Thus,
the Simsek family helps us out and organizes all Yoruk
families in the surroundings to build us a new tent.
We are also part of the building process. Nonetheless,
we are able to document perfectly. This amazing combination
was the idea of the genius father of Simsek Family.
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10th
July 2007 - The tent is finished after 1,5 days of
intensive work. 8-10 people were working hard on it.
Men and women did whatever had to be done. There was
no definite working order or division. Still the group
cooperated perfectly. This beats all the sayings!
Our Thanks are endless. |
12th
July 2007 - Father Simsek plans to build our second
tent on 23th July. |
15th
July 2007 - Tire: A city close to Selcuk, well known
for its handicrafts and delicious Koefte-meal. We
filmed the production of traditional felt-floor-covers
for the nomads. |
17th
July 2007 - Besides the numberous invitations of the
nomads at the goat-castle, we also accepted the nice
invitation of family Cetinkaya to sleep a night in
their tent. They showed us, how to shear goats. |
19th
July 2007 - Today we got the chance to film the secret
villages of the black tent weavers. There, one of
the last vertical black tent looms is still in action.
Meanwhile, we also became subject of internal economic
fights between the villages. Due to diplomatic tactics,
we could calm down the situation. |
23th
July 2007 - The second tent project starts. Again,
we drive to the secret villages of black tent weavers
in order to buy the necessary textile. Father Simsek
helps us get the rare allowance to film the industrial
production of the textile. He himself is surprised
about the dimension of the production: the village
supplies Saudi Arabia, Africa, Europe, ... with this
rare textile! Each year 3000 tons of wool. |
| 24th
July 2007 - By high speed the second tent gets built.
The team gets more professional. In addition the tent
also becomes more colourful and artistic than the first.
Even Grandfather Simsek helps sewing the tent. He is
a magnificent old man who taught himself how to read.
His grandson told us that grandfather loves history
books. Today in the evening we found some books as a
present for him. The tent was finished with a big festval
of beer and grilled chicken. |
| 26th
July 2007 - Our project comes to its end. In our last
remaining days in Turkey we visit again all 4 nomad
families in order to say "Good Bye". Meanwhile,
the heat of July reaches its climax by 45 degrees Celsius.
We are living in a hot steaming oven! |
27th
July 2007 - We say farewell and give presents to each
other. And we are looking forward to a merry meet
in the year 2008! Father Simsek tells us, that the
tent-making was fun and that they love to create more
tents for us. With sad and happy eyes we start our
journey alltogether with our 2 tents, 2 olive trees
and many things and memories. |
| 29th
July 2007 - We are back in Austria. It is cold! There
is rain and wind. Is winter coming already? |
1st
August 2007 - Slowly slowly we recover from the journey.
As we got used to extreme heat and extreme endurance,
our body now claims its rest. Meanwhile the next crazy
plan develops: Next year we will import the most wicked
herd animal from Turkey to Austria: 4 black long-goated
goats. As for the filmproject: our material is really
great. Now we have to work on 30 hours of documentation
and shorten it down to a classical documentary film
of 1,5 hours. This will take a year of work. You will
see the result, then :-) !! |