A Reading Attempt On The Relationship of Film and Dream Experience: The Secret Face
A Reading Attempt On The Relationship of Film and Dream Experience: The Secret Face

Summary/Abstract: Classically defined films, which adopt the logic of daily life and proceed in a linear line, try to give the audience a kind of “real life” experience, while the films that go beyond the usual system and exceed the time-space boundaries comprehend the audience with a dream-like experience. The aim of this study is to investigate dreams in cinema by examining them structurally, formally and aesthetically. In this direction, firstly, the facts of bast az-zaman and tayy al-makan in Sufism is used in order to put the concepts of time and space on a basis. The effect of time use in cinema on creating dream experience is investigated through Gilles Deleuze’s concept of time-image and Yvette Biro’s situations defined as moments of turbulence in cinema. After the relationship between film and dream experience is grounded on a basis through time and space, in order to shed light on the further stages, the relationship of dreams with reality and unreality is emphasized and the projection of this relationship in cinema is investigated. In this context, the thoughts of the German philosopher Thorsten-Botz Bormstein, who made detailed studies on films and dreams, is included. A reading attempt was made by analyzing the relationship between film and dream experience through Ömer Kavur’s The Secret Face (1990) film, which has a unique dream language.

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