Photo Credit: Berk Kır

S. Buse Yıldırım

Buse is a documentary artist whose practice is rooted in observational and interdisciplinary practices. Working across moving images, drawing, writing, performance, and ethnographic research, she explores memory, place, and the subtle relationships between inhabitants, landscapes, and material culture.

Her work is guided by long-term processes of listening, walking, collecting, and witnessing. Drawing from both artistic and anthropological approaches, she is interested in how personal and collective histories become embedded in everyday life, and how they can be revisited through images, stories, archives, and embodied forms of knowledge.

Interested in the intersections of cinema, performance, and ethnographic research, Buse often develops collaborative and process-based formats that bring together artists, researchers, and communities. Her interest in interdisciplinary methodologies has also led her to initiate platforms and learning environments that support artistic research, experimentation, and exchange across documentary practices.

After beginning her studies in art and design in Brighton in 2007, she completed a BA in History of Art at Goldsmiths, University of London, followed by a BA in Documentary Film Directing at ESEC Paris. She later received an MA in Visual and Media Anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin.

Her films and moving-image works have been presented internationally through festivals, exhibitions, and ethnographic film platforms. Alongside filmmaking, she continues to develop multidisciplinary projects engaging with collective memory, archives, maritime cultures, industrial heritage, archaeological landscapes, and biocultural knowledge across Anatolia and the Bosphorus.