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BENEATHE
HAGIA SOPHIA
It’s every documentarian’s dream to make a documentary which is going to become a legend about a legendery structure.
We succeed to shoot the tunnels and cisterns under Hagia Sophia after all the research and permission that took 20 years to get. I know, people will have a chance to see a legendary place that they won’t be able to see when this documentary is on the air. I will end hundreds of legends about Hagia Sofia and prove the fact of the real ones.
BENEATHE
HAGIA SOPHIA
Why & How
The purpose of this documentary is to revive and demystify the cistern and tunnel legends, to clearly present the museum to the public. With the project’s first step, which is the “HAGIA SOPHIA” documentary,
The underwater shootings of the documentary BENEATH THE HAGIA SOPHIA were carried out in the depths of the Hagia Sophia’s three big historical cisterns by four professional divers with extensive equipment using the latest technology in 1998.
The shootings of the 283 meters long tunnels and waterways were carried out by Boğaziçi International Caving Club crew between 13.04.2009 – 15.04.2009.
