Synopsis: Musa Agun is a master of crafts. He considers the apprenticeship profjession as manual labor that requires skill, tact, and is transmitted with love, labor, and perseverance. He complains about not being able to pass on his profession to future generations because he didn’t grow up to be an apprentice. He expresses that he cannot teach the new generation the master’s works made with labor, and the role of the family is great for the upbringing of the apprentice. Nowadays, apprenticeship problems are experienced in every field where artisanship is tried to be maintained. One of those masters is Musa Agun. All he wants is for apprentices from all age groups to come and teach his profession and keep his profession alive in the years after that. At the same time, Master Musa attributes the failure of apprentices to families. He tells them to work hard for this and to be patient. As Master Musa said, “Where are those old apprentices?”
Musa passion for this job for years comes from the fact that he fell in love with his job. He wants education programs to be of high quality, government agencies to open vocational courses and support such lost professions. Together, he invites the masters to unite, join hands and solve the apprentice issue. ” Come, let’s all experience art together, solve it and produce as much as we can.” he says. He wants to keep art and traditions alive for as long as he can and train good apprentices.
Director: Ömür Gürgen
Writer: Ömür Gürgen
Producer: Ömür Gürgen
Key Cast: Musa Agun, Fatma Agun
Country of Origin: Turkey
Country of Filming: Turkey
Language: Turkish
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Runtime: 00:20:00
ÖMÜR GÜRGEN
Ömür Gürgen was born in year of 1992, city of Turkey Tokat/Erbaa. He decided to become a director from the age of 11 . He finished primary school at which called ”Erbaa Primary School.” After he graduated from ”75th Year Erbaa High School” After he entered the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Ege University in 2013. In the same period, he worked as an assistant in the Oğuz Yalçın’s Art Workshop. He started his assistantship process, which he started during his school years, continued with the drama series which called ”Medcezir” in Istanbul and had the opportunity to work as a director’s assistant in many TV series, movies and advertisements. His short films;” Arayış, Kayıp Hazineler” (”The Search, Lost Treasures”) were entitled to compete in festivals. In the year of 2015, he worked as an assistant director in 2 different clubs ; ”Ege University Cinema Club” and ”Ege University Cartoon Comic Society.” In the same period he got education of drama and being scriptwriter. He has been living in Istanbul since 2016 and continues on the path of directing, starting from the lowest level.