Rasta Bama, Nigerian recording artist based in Malta performing Born to Love

This film was produced within a workshop conducted by artist-in-residence of the Kulturakademie Tarabya, Eva Maria Stotz, at Bahçeşehir University Istanbul April 2016. Love Story of a Syrian student in Istanbul by Ayob Dogoz, Lilas Nassrat and Ranim Kesibi

A spring day in North East Malta. Video by Mohamed Ibrahim and Marica Lewis

A group of friends, having escaped from Damascus, finding themselves in an apartment in İstanbul: Although this has never been their choice, the friends try to make the best out of their situation and their new “home”. Still, their thoughts turn around Syria and its pictures, its music as well as the will to return

Impressions from Berlin August 2013: Featuring Thomas Büsch eating pieplant lemonade and eating Currywurst at the restaurant Nola’s am Weinberg closed to Brunnenstrasse in East Berlin. We visited Kunstraum Kreuzberg at Mariannenplatz to see the show, We are not just here for fun. It was about Berlin’s subcultures and their former palces of the 1990th

This film was produced within a workshop conducted by artist-in-residence of the Kulturakademie Tarabya, Eva Maria Stotz, at Bahçeşehir University Istanbul April 2016. While the refugee crisis has received a great deal of media coverage, the portrayal of refugees is usually very one-dimensional. To counter that narrative and give voice to the people affected by

Members of the Shabia at a checkpoint in Syria. The nightmare of every Syrian oppositional is to be stopped by them. They are mistreating, torturing and killing people randomly. “This is Why…” is trying to put the spectator in the place of a Syrian civilian being stopped by two Shabia. The fear of the Syrian

Since summer 2013, Taksim Meydanı has lost a lot of its usual sights but still many people pass by; businessmen, businesswomen, tourists, students and dustmen. The documentary focusses on dustmen and their daily walk through the Taksim Square and its surroundings. It shows their hard work of lugging around tonnes of garbage stashed in one

Acclaimed geography academic and Professor of Anthropology at City University of New York provides an interview on urban issues in the district of Tarlabaşı Istanbul, an area in the last throes of evictions for the long-standing residents. Tarlabaşı is in the process of a gentrification programme to create an upscale housing and shopping district in the centre

The map of Istanbul for tourists, which includes the Sultanahmed-Region and Beyoğlu, covers only about one or two percent of the real Istanbul map. In order to go beyond these two percent you can join an „alternative citiyguiding“ (or an architectural field trip as Orhan Esen calls it). Orhan Esen is active as a researcher, writer

An introduction video to Christina Kubisch’s Electrical Walks series of works. Electromagnetic radiations can be directly translated into the acoustic domain with the help of Christina Kubisch’s custom made special headphones. Awesome sounds can be heard with the headphones everywhere near any electrical or electronical device or installation, particularly in the cities, where there density