The neighbourliness of a single-story, old house and a so-called "residence"... A monster named "urban transformation" has surfaced in Turkey since the last few years. Haunting neighbourhoods, this monster destroys whatever is left from history, erects glass towers everywhere, and swallows a few trees left. While this monster is at work, the old and the new, and the rich and the poor start to become neighbours. A huge residence which towers in the Kurtuluş district, in the heart of İstanbul, and Paşa neighbourhood, an old settlement which tries to breath in its shadow... Our film is about the relationship between a shanty and an apartment building as neighbours in this neighbourhood. A pink-painted house tells us the story. "One of the consequences of urban transformation is the destruction of old neighbourhoods. With the neighbourhoods their lifestyles, cultures and traditional structures have also artificially undergone a change. This transformation caused unrelated, disharmonic communities to become neighbours. Ultra-wealth coincided with poverty as much as to not being able to ignore each other anymore." – Bingöl Elmas |