Tayfun Pirselimoğlu

Tayfun Pirselimoğlu born 1959 Trabzon is a Turkish director screenwriter and producer Pirselimoglu graduated from Middle East Technical University after which he went to Vienna and studied painting at Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst Academy of Applied Arts He held various exhibitions in different cities of the world including Vienna Istanbul Ankara Budapest Tallinn etc He is one of the founders of the independent art initiative of Akademie Genius which he lectured on scriptwriting cinema and painting He also conducted workshops on film making in Wien Athens Ankara etc Pirselimoglu wrote six novelsTales from the Desert Album of the Missing Persons Melancholia Towers of the City Kerr and the Barber and three storybooks Rooms of the Hotels The Newest Lives of Harry Lime and Other Side of the Desert He started his film career as a scriptwriter and wrote various scripts of shorts and features He directed his first short film Dayim My Uncle in 1999 and then Il Silenzio e dOro Silent is Golden in 2002 both have received numerous international awards In 2002 he also shot Hiçbiryerde In Nowhereland his first feature film supported by Eurimages which has also received many awards He shot the trilogy of conscience and death including Riza Riza 2007 premiered in Berlinale Forum Pus Haze 2009 premiered as well in Berlinale Forum and Saç Hair 2010 premiered in Locarno FF all awarded SIDEWAY 2017 premiered in Warsaw and has received 6 awards by many festivals The shooting of his last feature film adapted from the book named Kerr was completed in 2020