When I Was Little
2024
İSTANBUL
When I Was Little, a partially autobiographical animation project, aims to show the social phenomenon of religion in Turkey and the ways religion is taught to children. From the moment Sinem Kanat, the director of When I Was Little, realized that the image that came to her mind when Allah was mentioned as a child was her grandfather, she started asking her friends, who grew up in different cities of Turkey and were raised in families with different religious beliefs, what they thought. Realizing that some of his friends feel afraid, while others find peace when they dream of God, and that what they see from their families as well as the education they receive at school has a shocking effect, the director pursues the images that appear in the child's mind. Stop-motion images, which resemble children's drawings and give the impression of being drawn on drawing paper with dry paint, will be used in storytelling. With voice over and music, "When I Was Little" will create a unique animation language with other types of expressions aimed at children's play world such as childhood photographs, potato prints, and stickers. The project aims to naively explain, from a child's perspective, a subject that may be taboo for adults, in the simplest and most straightforward way possible.
