Yellow is a movie short with no dialogue, but the seven-minute Seattle International Film Festival (SIFF) 2008 selection is no silent film.
Semih Tareen, native of Turkey and the Seattle Film Institute graduate, wrote, directed, produced, shot, and edited the piece, which was recorded on 16mm film.
The UW molecular biology graduate student also wrote the score for Yellow. This was not the first piece for which he’s gotten a music credit; Tareen scored 17 films and shorts before the 2007 release, and has done almost half a dozen since.
“As a film composer I am usually hired for projects requiring a knowledge of orchestration and the ability to compose for an orchestra,” Tareen said. “That is why my other film music projects are mostly orchestral. Yellow, on the other hand, utilizes a ‘synth-rock-pop’ sound.”
This was just one way for the feature to pay homage to giallo, an Italian horror genre that was popularized in the 1960s by filmmakers like Mario Bava (the man to whom Yellow is officially dedicated), he said.
Giallo is difficult to describe much further beyond that, though you may be amused to know that “giallo” means and is pronounced similarly to “yellow” in Italian.
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