Place, Loneliness, and Existence: The Phenomenology of Space in About Dry Grasses from the Perspectives of Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty

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dc.contributor.authorGünevi Uslu, Evren
dc.date.accessioned2025-10-11T20:42:41Z
dc.date.available2025-10-11T20:42:41Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.departmentDüzce Üniversitesien_US
dc.description.abstractStudies on the representation of space in cinema have gained conceptual depth particularly since the 2000s, influenced by thinkers such as Gilles Deleuze, Michel Foucault, and Henri Lefebvre. This study examines how the Anatolian steppe is represented as a phenomenological ground in Nuri Bilge Ceylan’s film About Dry Grasses (2023). In the film, space is not merely a physical backdrop for the narrative but functions as a lived domain that shapes the characters’ existential orientation, temporal perception, and ethical positioning. Drawing on Edmund Husserl’s concepts of the “lived body” (Leib) and the “lifeworld” (Lebenswelt), as well as Maurice Merleau Ponty’s notions of “chiasm” (intertwining) and “embodiment,” the study analyzes the tactile, visual, and temporal relationship between character and space. The research is conducted using a qualitative methodology. Six visual frames selected from the film are analyzed through the lens of phenomenological film analysis. Each scene is examined in terms of framing, color, tactility, intentionality, and ethical-political dimensions, and these analyses are contextualized within the film’s broader narrative structure. The findings indicate that in About Dry Grasses, the steppe is not simply a spatial setting, but an active component that shapes the characters’ psychic and bodily existence. The film renders space as a perceptible, resistant, and directive ground, transforming the viewer from a passive observer into an embodied perceiver. In this respect, the study opens a phenomenological discussion of spatial perception in Turkish cinema and offers an original contribution to the notion of “sensory thinking” in film analysis.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.17550/akademikincelemeler.1678998
dc.identifier.endpage280en_US
dc.identifier.issn1306-7885
dc.identifier.issn2602-3016
dc.identifier.issue2en_US
dc.identifier.startpage265en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.17550/akademikincelemeler.1678998
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12684/21212
dc.identifier.volume20en_US
dc.institutionauthorGünevi Uslu, Evren
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSakarya Universityen_US
dc.relation.ispartofJournal of Academic Inquiriesen_US
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Ulusal Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanıen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessen_US
dc.snmzKA_DergiPark_20250911
dc.subjectScreen and Media Cultureen_US
dc.subjectEkran ve Medya Kültürüen_US
dc.titlePlace, Loneliness, and Existence: The Phenomenology of Space in About Dry Grasses from the Perspectives of Heidegger and Merleau-Pontyen_US
dc.typeArticle

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