07 Ott An interview with Dogu Ozorhan, director of “Goodbye Blue Sky”

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Dogu Artun Ozorhan

 

«I want my films to feel almost like waves; emotions flowing out of the frame to the audience. »

 

BIO

Doğu Artun is a twenty-year-old filmmaker from Ankara, Turkey. Since his childhood, he was deeply involved in art and music. While he was still in high school, he participated in several film productions and eventually started making his own films. After finishing high school he moved to the U.S. to pursue his desire to make films, and to become a director. Currently he is studying film production at Ringling College of Art & Design in Florida while working on new experimental film and photography projects.

 

 

“Goodbye Blue Sky” presents a dystopian world in which freedom is limited, and art represents the only possibility of a way out. It struck us as a beautiful metaphor for the state of things and a reminder of the importance of the relationship between creativity and personal freedom. Can you confirm this for us?

 

Yes I can confirm. The whole film is a symbolism of the world that we are living in; where as people we are stuck inside the brick walls in our life, and some of us have not forgotten and they still remember what the sky looks like.

 

 

The journey of the protagonist, Blue, revolves around painting the sky accurately to earn the chance to see it. What inspired this intriguing concept, and what themes were you hoping to explore through Blue’s story?

 

I am not exactly sure what inspired me for the concept but while I was working on the script, I was mainly thinking about Pink Floyd’s film The Wall, and how I would be able to mix the concept of the wall with fine arts, because eventually I wanted to make a film about painting but I thought I wanted to combine the concept in my mind for the film with the themes from The Wall.

 

 

The film is rich in symbolism and bold stylistic choices. What inspirations in the visual and cinematic arts are you inspired by or drew from specifically for this project?

 

For the black and white parts of the film I was very inspired by Kassovitz’s La Haine and Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch for getting reference for the painting sequence. On the other hand, for the dystopian government and the judge I was heavily inspired from The Wall and Stanley Kubrick’s Barry Lyndon.

 

 

 

What were the main challenges encountered during the writing and production of “Goodbye Blue Sky” for you and your team? What lessons did you learn from creating this short film?

 

 

I think the biggest challenge about making this film happen was trying to create and do all of the production design as a sophomore student while not having any budget to spend on costumes or props. Ringling College and the Film Department were very supportive regarding providing me as much as they could with location and production design. So, I think the biggest challenge was trying to make a story of this scale as a sophomore production.

 

 

What are you currently working on?

 

Currently I am working on my new festival short, and my junior film “Moments Lost”. I am very excited to share all the updates about it before this year ends. Besides “Moments Lost” , I am finally done editing my other short film from last spring “The Tickle Inside”, and after I am done composing and recording the soundtrack for it
I will be sending it to festivals very soon.