TransAsia Express Switzerland
2008, 78min.
Prod./Script/Dir.: Manuel Uebersax, Dir. of Phot.: Manuel Uebersax, Ozay Sahin, Edit.: Manuel Uebersax, Ozay Sahin, Jose Antonio Szabo, Gines Olivares
Cast: Ahmet Ozturk
Hemo, a musician from Istanbul is taking the train to Iran to fix his old Persian instrument in Teheran and to get some parts for it. He is traveling for three days in the TransAsia Express through his homeland to visit the country of his instrument, which he has never seen before. We followed him and his santoor to Iran and documented the interesting, contradictory and entertaining reality of the railway that connects Istanbul and Teheran. As we are talking to the passengers, Hemo turns to his instrument and sings us songs of beauty and sorrow.
| Uebersax, Manuel Manuel Uebersax (born 1981, Berne, Switzerland)
Uebersax is studying and working at the Institute for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies and Middle Eastern Literatures at the University of Berne. His interest is in the Indo-Persian world and visual anthropology. From 2001 to 2002 he worked as a photographer and a photo assistant in New York. Since his return to Switzerland he has been working with film and photography besides studying. After his first university semester in 2003-2004 at Teheran University, he visited Iran again in summer 2005 by train. TransAsia Express is his first feature length documentary.
Filmography
TransAsia Express (2008).
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