The Ryder May Issue 2011 online version. Bloomington Katmandu: Home is Where the Art Is
by Filiz Cicek
“Home is where my foot is.” Says a half drunken actor in a beer and life induced lucid sate of mind. He left his birthplace Mersin at the age of six. Berlin in Germany is not home, but a street named Kreuzeburg is. Birol Uner visits daily its one and only Tapas bar, chattering with his fellow actors and musicians, carrying on with life in between film shootings. When I met him for the interview, he had just played a lovesick drunk German man with Turkish origins. His role in Gegen Die Wand/Head-On/Against The Wall, in which the protagonist tries to kill himself in the first scene, is semi-autobiographical. The film won a golden bear for Germany in 2006. Uner plays gypsies, drug dealers, police officers, and an uber German. In his half drunkenness he quotes Nedim's Ottoman poetry randomly. His friends carry him to his feet to take him to his nearby apartment; a house covered in big shiny metal letters conjugating life in Turkish past tense perfect: -mis, -mis, -mus. The street, bar and the house are seem to have merged into same space in his drunken lucid state of mind. He walks home alone. To read the article, pick up a RYDER. or For more information please visit: www.bloomingtonkatmandu.com
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