Billy's Story: I want to trace the bicycle named Billy, which has been in people's use for three generations, and explore in depth the nature and transience of things through its adventurous journey and changing owners. The fact that Billy made an intercontinental journey and came to Istanbul after the factory where it was produced in New Jersey, USA, was closed in 1974 is just a starting point for Billy's 45-year adventure, from its starting point to today.

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Temporality and the Nature of Things: Billy's years spent with three different users show how things carry meaning in people's lives and how things can go beyond being just an object. I think deeply about the nature of things, values that change over time, and their reflections on human relations. It is important to reveal how Billy became a symbol and how his relationships with his owners shaped his character.

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Objects Last Longer Than People: Some objects, such as Billy, can exist longer than humans. Their testimony points to the transience of human life and the changing role of things over time. Considering the connection between subatomic communication and nature's own cycle, I observed what place Billy had in his life process and how he changed in this process, with witnesses who have been in contact with him for three generations.

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I considered the memories of witnesses with footage and documentary-style interviews that allowed them to follow Billy's journey from past to present. It also includes symbolic scenes and visual motifs to emphasize the nature and transience of things.

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We tried to provide this documentary with a depth that questions people's relationship with things, transience and the nature of things through Billy's extraordinary story.

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The shooting of the film started in 2017 and was completed in 2019.

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Director, Editing; Uğur Cuya​

Producer, Benian Kara

​Narrators

Hasan Demirezen

Gultekin Ozkan

​Emel Öğünç Akdoğan

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