The Effect of Traditional Turkish Arts into Derviş Zaim Movies

It is not enough to know only the movies in order to tell something and make sense for the cinema. It is profoundly necessary to know the social and cultural structure which is experienced in. Culture is the body of behaviours be inherited from generation to generation, values, and creations showing up as a result of having intellectual, dogmaticand sentimental activities of human.The moviegoer or audiences should also have the same cultural data so that performer could narrate his/ her produces.Derviş Zaim is a director who has performedpioneer qualified works with a new language searching and having his origin based on Turkish culture by benefiting from traditional Turkish artsin his films.The aim of this study is to present how it is used in Derviş Zaim’s “Waiting for Heaven ( 2006 )”,“ The Dot ( 2008 )” and “Shadows and Faces ( 2010 )” films of traditional Turkish arts, miniature, calligraphy and Karagöz shadow play in the search of generating an original movie language of Turkish movie. To do this sort of study, it has been asked that aliterature reviewabout firstly miniature,calligraphy and Karagöz shadow play and semiotic analysis have been done by determining scenes consisting of data related to traditional arts in three films chosen as a sample.