Aşkını ver bana = give me your love

Abstract

This paper tries to evaluate the processes which constitute the documentary video project, aşkim ver bana, or give me your love, which is a story, a subjective and artistic response, to the music of the Mevlevi sufi order in Istanbul. The project was an inquiry into discovering the role of sound in leading to the ‘unseen’, how sound can lead to the flow of the unknown and becomes a missing link in the experience of the ‘spiritual seeker’. This paper discusses where my project stands vis. a vis. the different ‘modes’ of documentary, articulates the processes involved in making the video, as well as discussing how a§kim ver bana itself becomes a process of inquiry.