2021
work in progress
HD und Mini-DV, colour, Stereo
Additional Camera: Malu Blume
Performance: Ezgi Eczacıbaşı, Sinem Hekim
Music: Alican Çamcı
Supported by: FWF PEEK: Dis/possession: Post-Participatory Aesthetics and the Pedagogies of Land and International Sinop Biennial
Set between dream, reality, and future, the film is about a young girl who has survived the aftermath of social and environmental catastrophes in the wake of a Nuclear Power Plant construction. The speculative story is part of an artistic research project that is based in Sinop, Turkey and that reflects on the city’s uncanny arrangement of political and ecological interventions: The NATO base that was active from the 1950s to the 1990s to spy on the USSR; the historical fortress prison (1887-1999) where dozens of thinkers, poets, and writers were imprisoned for their ‘thinking crime’; and an upcoming Nuclear Power Plant being constructed amidst ongoing resistance of local movements, initiatives of civil society and ecological activists.