The Movie is Finished!

On the 28th of August, Kristina flew to Turkey during the weekend just to give the new DVDs of the movie to the Yoruk Black Tent Makers. There was a warm welcome and a big meeting with happy faces. After all, it is also a meeting of friends after a long time as Kristina and her husband can only come to the place once a year.


Thanks to the eager work of Andreas Daniel the movie got finished in time and gets presented in two languages: German and English.

The professional print of the DVDs will start soon!


In Turkey, this weekend, there was a big party of both families of Simsek and Surgun with lots of food and smiling faces.

Still there was some sad news to share. Grandfather Simsek, who was one of the stars of the movie, has died 45 days ago due to illness. He was a loved and honored old man. Everybody respected him and he attained a proud age of 80 years.


As well, all the old tents that are shown in the movie have already disappeared forever, except but for one. And the family Simsek has built themselves a new tent one year after the movie was recorded. If it was not for us, they would have never had the idea of getting a new tent once more in these modern times.

Therefore, we are happy to have done the movie early enough in 2007. Some years later we would not have had the chance any more.

Finishing the Movie

Meanwhile, we have the finalisation of the movie fixed. The end-mastering will take place in the middle of August. End of August the movie will be presented to the nomads in Western Turkey. We prepare some DVDs for each family as presents :-) Nowadays, nomads do have all the equipment to view movies at any occasion.
The advertising will start in the middle of August. We plan to present the movie to the public in October/November 2010. Further dates in the cinema and on tv are in discussion.

The movie will be available in German and English and distributed by the iva-icra.org.

Wish us luck :-)

Kristina

Voice and Sound for the Movie

About the works on the black tent documentary movie:

Meanwhile, Andreas Daniel finished cutting the movie into a wonderful black tent documentary sequence. He also has set the positions of sound and talk perfectly. Now, we are getting the Turkish dialogues translated into subtitles. There will be a German and an English Version. The speaker is ready to go but we have to make some fine revisions in the text. Still plenty of work but we are getting to the end of the task.

New Season

The worldwide economic crisis (starting Sept. 2008) got even the black tent research into turmoil. It is difficult to support voluntary work when the economic base is broken. But starting with spring 2009 we already had felt the improvement of the situation. Now, we gained new strength and are able to continue the expensive development of the documentary movie. As well, we are proud to announce that clients can order new black tents starting with the next season April 2010 until July 2010. Just remember, that you must order the tent in winter so that we can prepare the action. The families are happy when some clients want to visit them and watch the tent building.

So, with optimism spreading, we are looking forward to new challenges for the black tent research!

The Sahara 01

As already announced, we had a fascinating journey (3rd till 17th Oct. 2008) through the desert Sahara. Many people say that the desert is everthing else but not what you expect. After that journey I may say that they are right.

We went on foot through mountains and plains for about 11 days, led by a marvellous Tuareg team and 7 camels. Most of the time we went on foot, rarely we also used the camels to ride.

In this blog, I will post from time to time short impressions and messages about the Sahara journey. Now, for the first impression some pictures about the black tent that travelled with us:

BaSallam (age: 74) is setting up the black tent.


A black goat hair tent next to a modern black cotton tent set up in the prelude of a desert storm. The storm was no problem for the goat hair tent, while the cotton tent needed adjustment from time to time.


Kristina in the clothing of Tuaregs. The "Chech", traditional scarf for the head, is a very important tool in the desert. It helps you breave in case of storms, to replace your sunglasses in case they broke, and to protect your head and neck from a dangerous sun.


We needed a long time to find our way back to everyday life after that trip in the desert. An unforgetable experience.

Intermezzo

Happy New Year, dear Guests!

It has been a long time, since the last post. Time has been rough for us. The economic crisis has as well affected the black tent research as our main sponsor "CINNOBER.AT" was totally affected by the economic downfall. Meanwhile, the company recovered and things become better.

As well, the black tent research has narrowed its focus for the New Year 2009: Finishing the Black Tent Movie.

That is the main task to be this year.

As we have directly felt the cold grip of the economic crisis, we are still optimistic for things to improve. Again, this taught us, that one has to concentrate on the important things in life. Quality of life is not mainly a question of money, it is even more a question of heart.

All the best to you and have a wonderful start into the New Year.

Kristina

Desert Journey Upcoming

From 3rd Oct till 16th Oct we are on a journey in the desert in Marokko. This is the first time we get to "black tent nomads" outside of Turkey! We will be guests of the tribe Nouaji. As you can imagine, we are already happily nervous about the sensation and very curious about the new impressions we will get. All this is possible by the great offer from http://www.renard-bleu-touareg.org/ who organize these trips in a wonderful professional way. If you are interested in these trips, too, just visit their webpage!

This is a website-shot from http://www.renard-bleu-touareg.org/ There is a black tent in the picture, if you take a sharp look!