A NIGHT AT DERVISH BROTHERS (Impressions from Konya, 2023)
Channel: Vincent Moon / Petites Planètes
Date: 2024-01-24

A film by Vincent Moon
Produced by Petites Planètes, Rana Gorgani, Souffle Collectif
Images by Vincent Moon, sounds by Julien Colardelle
Recorded at the Dervish Brothers, Konya, december 2023

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« At some point of the Seb-I Arus week, all the various performances and rituals going around Konya during the day seemed to be leading to an evening at the Dervish Brothers house. A sort of musical pilgrimage taking place every night, with many (many) people queuing in the entrance and the corridor, hoping to finally enter the large salon where were happening the music and dances. 
You wouldn’t know what to expect - it could be a local Turkish ensemble or a lost Persian poet, an exceptional tanbur player accompanied by a more chaotic daf rhythmic section, up to Western European neo-Sufi dancers engaged in an impromptu zikr, with massive head-banging and shouts.
The audience was in large majority from Iran - a Persian hub in itself, where men and women could mix, dance and play together, different to what’s possible to do back in Iran, where sufi practices are more chased than revered. 
Filming in such a packed space was always a challenge - not only for the very few movements I could do, also for the disturbing presence of a larger camera in an intimacy already filled with cellphones. I had to become a show myself, adding and not trying to disappear, going with the dance and smiling at this bit of Sufi filmmaker cliché.
The memory of those long evenings will stay with us, trancing and losing ourselves in the crowd. A true experimental Sufi space, like no other. »

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A film of the collection “Impressions from Konya” - 10 short films on Sufi ceremonies in Konya, recorded in December 2023 during the Seb-i Arus, the week celebrating the 750 years of the voyage to the stars of Rumi, the Mevlana

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WATCH THE COMPLETE PLAYLIST - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX_ZJ9TOdflWQ1Hz8Fh8CMyZZHQvWb10v

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10 films from the official and impressive Sema ceremony with 37 whirling dervishes to the long nights of dancing at Hiçhane or outside the mausoleum, from various collaborations of Sufi dancer Rana Gorgani with Ozgur Baba or Sadegh Azmand to entrancing circles all over. A cinema trip into the heart of modern and ancient sufism. 

#konya #sebiarus #turkey #rumi #mevlana #sufism 

Filmed by @vincentmoon, sounds by Julien Colardelle
Produced by Petites Planètes, Rana Gorgani, and Souffle Collectif

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Petites Planètes is an ongoing project comprised of films, music recordings, cinema performances, and immersive installations.
An independent production company created by french artists Priscilla Telmon and Vincent Moon, Collection Petites Planètes' aim is to explore the boundaries between cinema, music, and expanded forms of modern rituals. Our vision moves between the realms of documentary creation, ethnographic research, and filmic experimentation.
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