Horses Under the Sun

	HORSES UNDER THE SUN
Hi8-Betacam 20.30 mins. May 1997
	A film by Aras Özgün @ kör autonomedya
"If you make carving, it's like to a certain degree you have an idea, to a certain degree the stone tells you what to do. So it's a fusion of your ideas and what is possible in the stone."
	As a filmmaker, my handwork is not much more than simply hitting the buttons. In filmmaking you work with your eyes and ears, on a completly contingent and ephemeral material; images and sounds. At first, it was an atractive idea; the idea of making a film with some people who gives shape to things with their hands, who produces most solid and permanent things.
"For me sculpting has to have no function. As long as it has a function it becomes a sort of design...As soon as sculpting takes part in a communication process it becomes a design of life....So , where does this design stops? It depends on how far the design is refined in its precise quotations."
	But in the process of making the film I remembered that making a film is nothing but organising space, like they do with the stone.We were dealing with the same problem. And we have found out new problems; What is sculpting? What is space? What is a design? How could we produce something which depends on the idea of openness? What is openness, anyway?
"There is no difference for me berween natural spaces and artificial spaces. My work is not meant for artificial spaces or natural spaces. My work is space itself, so it can be wherever it is."
	"That stone came from somewhere. It is broken from a part of where it came from. So it has cut, a natural cut...I cut it again, but in such I way that it gets strength. And through a clear definition of this strength, I give that piece of material its right to be body."
"That is why this work is a work in which space exists, a clear definition of space without its functional qualities of a work of art. It is not a work of art, it is space. And there's a big difference between these two definitions of work of art."
	And there I found more than metals and stones; there was the sun, the moon, the wind, the landscape and sounds that I have never heared before.
"I first make a small maquette and I transpose the idea of this maquette to the stone and I try to make the stone powerfull again. If anybody looks at the stone and feels that the stone is strong again than I've succeded to make the stone strong and keep it open, that's all... Beauty can exist only if it is left to be open."
	I have learned a lot about filmmaking from these people, and I have tried to make a film like they do with the stone. I still worked with my eyes and ears, I again hit the buttons and made a film about sculpting, about the wind, about space and sun. I tried to organize space again, and leave it as open as it can be.