Yapım Tarihi - 2025
Süresi - 00:10:00
Format - Deneysel Belgesel, Renkli, Türkçe
Yönetmen / Director - Abdullah Harun İlhan
Senarist / Writer Abdullah Harun İlhan
Yapımcı / Producer - Abdullah Harun İlhan
Meaning of a City: London, was brought to life after a process spanning years,
in which I included my inner conversations about the concepts of city and home,
based on my experiences in London.
Meaning of a City: London is a personal and experimental journey into the layers
of a city that both broke and rebuilt me. At 21, I found myself homeless in
London—alone, anonymous, and adrift. But over time, what was once a place of
dislocation became a complex mirror, reflecting back fragments of identity,
memory, and meaning.
This film is not a conventional narrative. It’s a collage of impressions—sounds,
shadows, silence—an attempt to understand how a city inhabits us just as we
inhabit it. London is never one thing; it is history and illusion, loneliness
and connection, decay and beauty. I wanted to explore that multiplicity through
a visual language that bends time and reality, and through a structure that
follows the rhythm of memory rather than chronology.
In an era when cities are increasingly viewed through data and development, I
wanted to reclaim the subjective, the poetic, the vulnerable. Meaning of a City
is about that shift—from surviving in a place to understanding it as an
extension of one’s own inner world. It’s a meditation on place, displacement,
and the quiet wisdom that emerges when we stop trying to conquer a city and
instead begin to listen to it. Abdullah Harun İlhan is a film director and
photographer from Türkiye. He began making films at age eleven and has since
screened award-winning shorts and documentaries at over 200 festivals worldwide.
A graduate of Bahçeşehir University’s Cinema Department, he furthered his film
education in the U.S., U.K., South Korea, and Qatar. İlhan has contributed to
film projects in more than 65 countries and held his first photo exhibition at
seventeen. He earned master’s degrees from Ibn Haldun University and the
University of the Arts London. Currently developing his debut feature, he
continues to explore stories through film, guided by a deep interest in
philosophy, memory, and human resilience.
