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 […]
Touch of Evil
The famous crane shot from Orson Welles’ 1958 film “Touch of Evil”. Touch of Evil is a stark, perverse story of murder, kidnapping, and police corruption in a Mexican border town. The movie is a 1958 American film noir crime thriller film, written and directed by Orson Welles. The screenplay was loosely based on the […]
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 […]
Our Terrible Country
Our Terrible Country’ takes us on the perilous journey of Yassin Haj Saleh, a well-known Syrian intellectual and dissident, and the young photographer Ziad Homsi who travel together in an arduous and dangerous route from the liberated area of Douma/Damascus to Raqqa in northern Syria, only to find themselves eventually forced to leave their home […]
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 / 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 / Galatasaray Square − Beyoğlu
“My intention was to walk from Galatasaray Square to Omer Khayyam Bridge, passing through Tarlabaşı. I was going to look at the second-hand shops along the street, and talk with tradesmen. The sight of a demolition of a building right next to the square stopped me in my tracks. The site was full of visuals […]
Nevin Aladag: Citylanguage II
Part of the exhibition Modernity? Perspectives from France and Turkey The works in the exhibition focused on the dynamics of modern life, both criticized and considered as an endless opportunity for research by visual arts. In a globalized world, we are going through a period of diverse, profound, and complex relationships in which uses of new […]
One morning when Gregor Samsa wakes up …
“Gregor Samsa woke up one morning and found himself, supposedly transformed into a gigantic insect. Can you imagine?” A video about young people who explore an abandoned house and make it come alive by introducing some kind of art into it. Starting with graffiti, action paintings, and climbing up to the house amongst cheers, the […]
Oh Duma…
A citizen journalist, Ziad S Homsi, from Douma’s documented the terrible results of these massacres and the collection of the bodies for the funerals by the remaining family members. In addition to the human catastrophe, Homsi also filmed the destruction and devastation that the regime’s shelling and invasion had left behind in the city. In […]