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Epistolary Entanglements in Film, Media and the Visual Arts
Epistolary Relays in Fatih Akin’s Auf der anderen Seite (On the Other Side/ On the Edge of Heaven) (2007)
January 15 2023
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Abstract
Fatih Akin’s 2007 film Auf der anderen Seite follows its protagonists’ diasporic trajectories between Germany and Turkey. The film constructs a complex narrative in three interlaced segments that pit narrated against narrative time, sound against image. This chapter explores how cinematography, editing, and sound design construct an epistolary relay system in which characters cross paths unbeknownst to them, in which a scene is restaged from ‘the other side’ to unsettle spectatorial assumptions in order to reflect on trans-European migration along with German and Turkish histories of oppression.