Ghostly is designed to be the artistic interpretation of an academic study for the Freie Universitat Berlin’s Visual and Media Anthropology department. The research explores the patterns in the emplacement of the new wave migration movement; namely, the recent highly-skilled migration from Turkey to Berlin. In the research, the structure of this trajectory in place-making stretches from displacement to emplacement; from the confrontations with the language barrier to the sense of solidarity in online and offline milieus. The audio-visual style of the film comes from from these waves and traces of reflections the ¨New Wavers¨ create as they are forced to experience a new sense of scattered space and belonging. Therefore, Ghostly does not follow a linear structure, but it rather flows as a collection of anonymous and abstracted memories, moments and stories.
Running time: 12 mins
Shooting Format: HD
Film Color: Color
Date of Production: 2020
Language: Turkish
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Creative Short Documentary
I Am Fiction / I Am Fantasy
Short Documentary / In Post-Production
A contemporary fabulous voyage to the universe of Ünver Oral, Karagöz Shadow Play master which is a part of traditional theatre.
Running time: 12 mins
Shooting Format: HD
Film Color: Color
Date of Production: 2019
Language: Turkish
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Creative Short Documentary
Warehouse
Short Documentary
Optakus is a recent multi-sited lab composed by S. Buse Yildirim, Constantinos Diamantis, Malwa Grabowska and Lillian Dam Bracia, exploring the boundaries of experimental and ethnographic filmmaking, extending the sensorial possibilities of sound and image.
“Warehouse” is a meditative ethnographic short film.
An intimate encounter in the warehouse, a cosmos of objects where carpenter labor happens. The trace of sound in every bit of object can be seen as individuals within a space, where every material has its own texture, smell and acoustic properties. The array of sounds and images confront audiences with the aural and visual textures of the labour and the space itself. The film guides into an sensory experience, through the up-close, intense sonic and visual engagement and a imaginative soundscape composition.
Running time: 8 mins
Shooting Format: HD
Film Color: Color
Date of Production: 2018
Language: no dialogue
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Multi-sited Lab
Circa
Experimental Short Film
A visual essay on digital anthropology of menstruation. The video depicts the relationship of our biological rhythm and digital period tracker application within spatial approach.
The video is produced for the digital anthropology class at the MA visual & media anthropology programme at Freie Universitat in Berlin.
Running time: 11 mins
Shooting Format: HD
Film Color: Color
Date of Production: 2017
Language: English
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
A Digital Anthropology Machinima / Screenshot Project
Ah.
Short Film
“Âh”, in Turkish is the sound of a deep sorrow. When words tend to express the pain but remains inappropriate and weak, “âh” exhales it and relieves the soul from the burden of immeasurable, inexpressible feelings. It also replaces the causes and the factual account of this grief. “Âh” delivers the whole story in two letters, as in this film. The anonymous female character does not allow us to dive neither into her past nor in her future. The pain and the disquiet apparently trapped her in a vicious cycle. Her relation to her body and to the outer realm oscillates between a will for a new start and the fear.
This cloud of emotions is wrapped into melancholia. She discovers this vicious cycle that her delusions create, while defining the borders of her inner space. Meanwhile the distance is covered more by the time in her mind. She listens all the components of outer milieu. She gazes and feeds them; she attempts to obtain them but cannot take a step out of her own space. The sound of others, from outer milieu becomes disquieting more and more. They sometimes sound hopeful, sometimes noisy to her, but she cannot figure out how she can actually make music out of this noise.
She hurts her body as if the pain only could revive her senses. She wanders around in the space, but apparently she needs to rediscover and define her own domestic milieu with all its usual components. “Âh” is the visual embodiment of her non-factual story.
Running time: 16mins
Shooting Format: HD
Film Color: Color
Date of Production: 2016
Language: no dialogue
Aspect Ratio: 16:9
Video installation : Il l’appelera la légère - L’espacée tentative débordement
Nous observons, en réalité, qu’en dansant il y a un échange des espaces ; l’espace intime (corporel) et l’espace déjà construit, le mouvement amorce ces échanges. De plus, le mouvement devient un outil dans tous ces faits. La conscience profonde du danseur pendant ce voyage entre des espaces, construit une trace dans l’air grâce au mouvement, et c'est par le mouvement que le danseur affirme son existence dans le vide. Le mouvement ne peut être qu'un simple geste mais par la chorégraphie, il gagne en identité. Grâce à la danse, le mouvement, le corps et l'espace ne forment plus qu'une seule totalité. Toutes ces notions qui construisent cet art nous ont permises de voir un parallèle évident avec le temps et l'espace cinématographique. L’idée est de faire confondre leur grammaire, celle du mouvement corporel et organique avec celle du cadre, le troisième espace se propose ici de prendre forme par le mouvement cinématographique.
L'enjeu est de représenter la conscience dansante à l'oeil du spectateur, lui faire figurer le paysage intérieur du danseur dont chaque mouvement transforme l'espace. Grâce au procédé cinématographique, il s'agit de retranscrire cet endroit impalpable, lui proposer une forme et un cadre, afin de placer le spectateur dans l'élan du mouvement, dans le souffle profond de ses impulsions, entre le corps, son intuition intime et l'air. Comment figurer l'idée d'un mouvement pur et le danseur qui l'élance ?