To a Friend is a short video by Moawia Shannan taken in one singel shot. The actor of the movie is Moawia himself as well as the narrator of the Arabic poem. The movie is about nostalgia and memory. When Moawia was walking at this alley in Istanbul for the first time he was remembering

Culture in Exile Full HD, 85 min. Teaser of the documentary In The Dark Times by Thomas Büsch and Sabine Küper-Büsch. World premiere of the movie, June 15, 2016 at Pera Museum, Istanbul. IndieFest Film Awards, La Jolia, U S A 2016 – Section Documentary Feature, Award of Special Recognition „When a thousand were butchered and

A short clip in three takes by Ali Ali tells us a story of someone – homeless, displaced or emigrated – who stays in the cold during the winter. Sleeping in the cold he awakes in his dreams in a comfortable bed, but the reality returns when this dream ends. Director – Ali Ali Camera

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

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

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

Jonathan arrived at Kastellorizo by accident, but stayed by choice. In one of the most remote islands of Greece, Jonathan found his home, which he takes care of. He keeps it clean and tidy. Perhaps he is the happiest resident of the island and the one offering the most services. He is involved in many

Living thousands of kilometers away from his beloved persons is the price Roy paid, in order to leave the war of Iraq behind him in search of a serene life towards the West. He had managed without any particular difficulties, had a stable job and could afford renting a house in Athens. “I used to

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

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

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