ISTANBUL



ISTANBUL:CIVILIZATION OF WATER

A Documentary About  Secret Treasure of Istanbul
Water Scales, Fountains, Sebils and Sadirvans


Producer –Director: Şükrü Sim

The Basilica Cistern(Yerebatan Sarnıcı) Istanbul



İstanbul is the leading city where the architectural art reaches it’s peak in water structures. “İstanbul: Civilization of Water”, reveals many of the structures which have resisted time over a thousand years since the Rome-Byzantine and Ottoman eras. The documentary which was filmed over than a year, shows detailed information about the dams and aqueducts along the historical Kırkcesme, Halkali and Hamidiye water ways, along with the cistern, maksems, water scales, fountains, sebils and sadirvans, which were also used to store and distrubute water in the city. The documentary presents an unmached opportunity to fully understand this extraordinary system, in it’s integrity by giving new meaning to the structures which the people fo Istanbul pass by everyday.