Ozan Boz

World Trip Films

BIOGRAPHIE

--- Biography --- Ozan Boz is a filmmaker and a musician based in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Ozan’s transition from music to film was a natural one as he first started directing music videos. His interest in “sci-fi films without science”, fascination with “time”, and obsession with “show, don’t tell” led him to create a trilogy of silent short films that revolve around the idea: “There is only now. Past is memory, future is hope”. Ozan completed the first instalment of the trilogy, also his directorial debut “She Decided Not To Remember” in 2020. Second instalment “I Lulled The Horses To Sleep” is currently in post-production, and the third instalment “Diocaesarea”, which was scheduled for production in an ancient Zeus Temple in April 2020, is postponed due to Covid-19 pandemic. In addition to directing music videos and short films, Ozan has worked as director of photography, assistant director and editor on several short films. He briefly worked as a TV producer for a local show conducting interviews with high profile Canadian politicians. Most recently, he worked as a second unit director on a feature film called “Fly Like a Crane Bird”. Ozan is taking the quarantine as an opportunity to finish his first feature-length script which is a mystery/thriller film about generating undiscovered earth-shattering ideas by use of data mining and an imaginary library, inspired by a short story called "The Library of Babel" by Argentine author and librarian Jorge Luis Borges. As a nature lover, Ozan practices a “zero waste” lifestyle. During his productions, no waste was produced. --- Director’s Statement --- One day, I was listening to ambient tracks of a musician friend, Hugh Marsh, on SoundCloud. Incidentally my eyes closed, and I found myself in a daydream. I might have wanted to, though :) Images started popping up in my head, slow pace of movements, feelings of a break-up in a serene new world and a glass ball being passed around instead of speaking. When the ball freefell, something irreversible happened: permanent amnesia. And I thought about the endless possibilities that would bring. At the end of that daydream, I decided that this would make the first instalment of my trilogy. With “She Decided Not To Remember”, my intention was to induce a certain feeling in the viewer, rather than intellectually engaging them about the “rules of nature” in that world. Film can be so many things. Art, entertainment, education, documentary... I wanted to use my first short film as an opportunity to develop my own style, rather than practising the established film grammer. (* We only see the characters’ experience of that sci-fi world, not the science of how things got there.)

FILMOGRAPHIE