Doğaya Dönüş Temasının Ekolojik Karşılıkları: Koca Dünya (2016) Ve Yuva (2018) Filmleriyle İnsan-Doğa İlişkisi Üzerine Düşünmek
Ecological Implications of Going Back to Nature: Thinking On Human-Nature Relations with Koca Dünya (2016) and Yuva (2018)

Summary/Abstract: ‘Back to nature’ is a common theme that can be seen in popular and independent films in many countries, in various sub-genres and approaches. It is possible to make a long list of films addressing issues such as human struggle with nature, negotiation, the process of orientation, escape from society and isolation, learning from nature, and finding oneself in ‘back to nature’ narratives. There are two films in contemporary Turkish cinema, Koca Dünya (Big Big World, Reha Erdem, 2016) and Yuva (Home, Emre Yeksan, 2018), which draw attention to this theme in particular ways. Koca Dünya tells the story of Ali and Zuhal, who escape from the trouble they got into and take shelter in the forest. Yuva is based on Veysel’s forced expulsion from the forest, who chose to live there alone. Two films have almost organic connections while they construct completely different universes. The ‘back to nature’ theme in the films is a rich and layered transformation with a rich intellectual background, through which ecological sensitivities can be detected, open to inferences about nature, humans, and ecology. These films make their protagonists return to their most ancient relationships with nature, and relate them with the idea of a nature that they can be one by turning into a branch of a tree or blending with the earth in the forest. Both in Koca Dünya and Yuva nature is not positioned in ‘anthropocentric’ ways in the stories they tell, and thus they are films that overlap with ‘ecocinema’ perspectives. The article will examine how an ecological perspective on the relationship between nature and human beings is produced with cinematic methods and tools and discuss how ‘ecocentric’ views are constructed within the framework of ‘ecocinema’ discussions.

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