ON THE NATURE OF CONTEXT | ISTANBUL

Series of short films | Turkey 2023 | Turkish, English

A collaborative cinematographic project that explores the relation of the social and the spatial in the urban context: community and anonymity; social difference and spatial divisions; politics and public space; gentrification and urban renewal; subjectivity and space; experience and everyday practice from a choreographic approach.

Direction, Camera and Editing Michael Maurissens
Realized in the frame of the residency program 'Atelier Galata' by the kunststiftung nrw

Istanbul ‘BorisRock’ | 10’

Collaboration with Turkish first generation breakdancer Borisrock, exploring embodied memory and the impact of the urban environment on the dancing body.

Antakya ‘80 sec’ | 14’

Collaboration with Hatay performers Didem Koban and Süleyman Demirkol engaging with the memories of their earthquake devastated home city of Antakya.

Istanbul ‘The burrow’ | 7’

A collaboration based on the performance of actress Şükran Çakmak and the work ’The burrow’ by Franz Kafka.

symmetrical coincidence | 7’

An essay around the work ‘sunset melodrama’ by contemporary choreographer Mellih Kirac.

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