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Ece Ayhan was one of Türkiye's most radical artists. He created an entirely new language with his difficult to translate poetry, and declared war on Türkiye's official ideology and constructed conception of history. He was obsessed with issues of civilness and freedom. In a country like Türkiye that sanctifies its history and has countless official celebration days, Ayhan was against a notion of history as a thing to be respected and spectated.
This film is an attempt to look at a piece of found footage that emerged from a flea market in Istanbul, and presents Türkiye's history as an official parade through Ece Ayhan's eyes. It is a short, satirical musical commentary on a geography where official parades sanctifying history emerge even from flea markets.
