The construction of meaning and narration by editing in Reha Erdem movies

The art of cinema forms its own artistic aesthetics, by drawing its strength from unique structures and forms of numerous traditional arts. A director becomes the creator of filmic time and space with an artistic perspective by selecting and combining sounds and moving pictures just like a novel writer who creates hundred pages of novels supported by the words. In compliance with the dramatic structure, as allowing selection from the hundreds of shootings, the editing is one of the basic narrative tools which brings esthetical format to movies. Reha Erdem, one of the innovative directors of Turkish Cinema, by interpreting the art of editing as an esthetical elements of his language of cinema, forms the meaning and narrative structures of his movies. Expressing that he likes what is created in the cinema, the director draws attention to the connotations with visual and auditory codes that he has designed to construct his films by editing with a libertarian mentality. The aim of this study is to understand how related the editing with the meaning and narrative structure in the movies of Reha Erdem who is one of the New Turkish Cinema directors in post-1990. The first part of the research consist of the historical process of cinema art and the development of the editing within this period and the institutionalized views that will contribute intellectual meaning to this study. In the second part of the research, the distinguishing features of director cinema are classified under common headings and interpreted within the framework of auteur theory. In the third and final part of the research, film analyzes has taken place, based on theoretical frameworks determined in the first and second parts. In this part, the movies; Kaç Para Kaç (1999), Beş Vakit (2006), Kosmos (2009) were chosen which gives the opportunity to access more detailed information on cinema understanding of the director. In the final part, the obtained data is discussed. Key words: Cinema, Editing, Auteur, Reha Erdem