Voice of My Father: “An Unrepressed Inner Voice” in Our Collective Memory

This article addresses the politico-aesthetics of voice by examining the way in which the film Babam？n Sesi (Voice of My Father) directed by Orhan Eskik？y and Zeynel Do？an (2012) relates to different forms of giving vocal. For the analysis of the film, it dialogues with much of trauma cinema and sets out Mladen Dolar and Pascal Bonitzer's studies on voice/psychoanalysis and cinema. The traumatic cinema argues that telling a traumatic past imposes its own understan- ding of aesthetics and that the latter includes a ethico-political preference. Departing from this precept, the article further demonstrates that Voice of My Father’s aesthetic preference on the use of voice, while marking out a familial and social trauma, calls audiences to an ethico-political position