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 […]
Remember the Blanks
A short video to the Gezi protests of the day 31st of May 2013. The documentary shows step by step the escalation of the protest. Beginning with a normal and peaceful demonstation it started to get aggressive when the police arrived and began to shoot with their weapons. As a result you have dead and […]
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 […]
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 […]
St. Oberholz in Berlin
The Aischinger brothers August and Carl opened the first public venues for drinking beer in Berlin 1892. The building at Rosenthaler Platz was the ninth place, built in 1898, where you could have snacks and a beer for 10 Pfennig (5 Cent). Alfred Döblin describes the place in his novel Berlin Alexanderplatz. Aischinger lost there […]
StreetWalking − Trailer
Artistic Project Management – Asena Hayal Concept / Idea – Sabine Küper-Büsch / Thomas Büsch Trailer by Markus Schmidt With Tahribad-ı İsyan Camera – Thomas Büsch Production – diyalog derneǧi © diyalog, Istanbul 2014/2015
Tear Gas and Graffiti − Trailer
A documentary by Sabine Küper-Büsch and Thomas Büsch about the culture of capuling during the protests in Turkey in the summer of 2013. The demolition of the Gezi Parc in the city center caused mass demonstrations. Beside the protests on the street artists, musicians and performers built the creative heart of the Gezi uprisings in […]
The City Of Anselma
SAMPLE CITIES / IMAGINARY SPACES Expanded Cinematographic Installation by Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke The video shows one of the art pieces of Sample Cities / Imaginary Spaces. It deals with the theme of personal urban perceptions, which we call »the city« and researches what is contained or concealed in the city. The source material […]
The Secret In Their Eyes
Another example of a one single shot that is on a story level, this is an absolutely bravura sequence from the terrifically entertaining 2009 Best Foreign Film Oscar winner. Established by a wide “helicopter” shot of a packed football stadium, we fly into close up on our heroes in the stands, swim in and out […]
Tophane
The short movie documents a scenery in Tophane / Istanbul at July 17th, 2013.