MERAMET
Meramet is a research-based, ethnographic multimedia art project exploring the layered memories, stories, and everyday practices of the Bosphorus.
Bringing together moving images, oral histories, drawing, archival research, walking-based inquiry, and participatory encounters, the project traces how knowledge, memory, and lived experience travel across generations, communities, and shorelines. At its core, Meramet is interested in the ways people remember, inherit, transform, and transmit their relationships to place.
The word meramet refers to a makeshift act of repair—an improvised intervention that allows something worn, damaged, or fragile to endure a little longer. Within maritime and fishing traditions, it describes the mending of torn fishing nets, extending their life through care, skill, and repeated attention.
For us, Meramet is both a method and a metaphor. A conceptual fabric woven from voices, gestures, memories, and stories, it creates playful and performative forms of encounter through which the Bosphorus can be remembered, reimagined, and shared across generations.
Credits:
Director: S. Buse Yıldırım
Producer: İzel Şenal
Production Company: Lita House of Production
Consultants: Nazlı Çevik Azazi, Dilek Aydın
For More Information: https://www.meramet.istanbul/
Fundings:
"Sivil Düşün” – European Union Programme,
Ministry of Culture and Tourism of the Republic of Turkey Documentary Production Support
Our Partners: