Left Over Work in Istanbul / Tarlabaşı − Beyoğlu
This video from the Left Over series by Artıkişler Kolektifi was created only with unused footage from the documentary Exiles of Metropol (Metropol Sürgünleri). As a method, and not as a solution, Artıkişler Kolektifi decided to work with found footage about the past of the Tarlabaşı district instead of producing new images. The filmmaker treats […]
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Galata − Beyoğlu
Through Galata, a street vendor walks with his cart full of brassware. His path does not cross the touristic places. He leads us to the side streets where it is quiet, where people live in apartments and lead lives cut off from the everyday buzz of the bustling tourism in Galata. Comparing the present of […]
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Taksim Meydanı − Beyoğlu
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 […]
Left Over Work in Istanbul / Dolapdere − Beyoğlu
In this seven-minute documentary, we get to see how lively a flea market in Dolapdere/ Beyoğlu can be. We get the sense of a typical Turkish flea market where people bargain, break into conversations, have discussions on everything from the things we find in this market to musing about life itself. The camera captures all […]
Smoked Fish
Anne Knödler spent six month in Istanbul with a residency from Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle. She developed the performance “Fümeli balık”, “Smoked fish” an ongoing social interventional art project. On different spots in Istanbul the artist started smoking local fish in a selfmade oven. The interaction with fisherman and different people joining the performance generated […]
Second Life in Ayvansaray
If you are thinking where to move next in Istanbul, have a look at Ayvansaray. It is going to be one of the new fancy places, populated by Avatarians designed by the muncipiality of Fatih. You feel like in the virtual world of Second Life, unreal looking houses with wooden looking plastic surfaces, stereotyped people […]
Electrical Walks
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.
An alternative Cityguiding through Istanbul
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 […]
Tophane
The short movie documents a scenery in Tophane / Istanbul at July 17th, 2013.
Metro Saturday June 8, 2013 at midnight
This video is taken by Ufuk Aziz in the metro where people just left the Gezi Park and sang: “This is only the beginning, we will continue our fight!”