ANARCHAFEMINIST DIVINATIONS, 2024, Experimental Ethnography
Anarchafeminist Divinations is an experimental ethnography that reimagines the traditional Anatolian practice of coffee-ground fortune-telling, blending it with the photochemical process of chemigramm.
While traditional readings focus on heteronormative themes like family and love, the film transforms this cultural technique into a tool for collective reflection on the future. Guided by the concept of transindividuality—the idea that no one is free until everyone is—the film explores futures through entangled, multispecies perspectives.
This ethnography of the future and friendship opens space to imagine new ways to restore the interconnectedness of all living and non-living beings..
ANALOGUE PRACTICES IN DIGITAL LANDSCAPES, 2023, Experimental Ethnography
In this film, I experiment with ethnographic research methods and modes of representation to depict analogue film communities, filmmaking practices in Berlin and Vienna, and the mechanical repair and photography milieus in Istanbul.
In an age marked by digital technologies, this film chronicles the everyday lives of artists working with obsolete or abandoned technologies and the mechanics and retailers who keep them alive.
Screenings
30.11.2023 14th Ethnofest – Athens Ethnographic Film Festival
26.11.2023 5th Festival of Engaged Ethnographic Film Vizantrop, Belgrade
06.10.2023 12th Taiwan International Ethnographic Film Festival
26.09.2023 KRATFEST North Macedonia
BARBER QUEEN, 2019, Experimental Ethnography, Işıl Karataş, Pia Bühler, Viktoria Kostova, Joyce Stefanova
BARBER QUEEN is a synesthetic experience, which takes the audience to the hypersensitive world of various delicate changes of the self, illuminating the intimate stories of five different individuals who are undergoing visual transformations. The stories are intertwined, and therefore all the scenes are combined into a series of close-ups metaphorically implying the experiencing of various sensations, emotions, and feelings, creating a playful dialogue between all participants. Screenings: 20.07.2019 Ethnographic Museum in Belgrade - 04.10.2019 Unseen Festival Cavtat - 05.10.2019 Cinematheque of the Republic of Northern Macedonia - 09.11.2019 Balkan Express Conference, Prague - 08.10.2019 International Festival of Ethnographic Film, Manak’s House, Belgrade - 09.14.03.2021 International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Congress - 12.-18.04.2021 CULTUREELS – Ethnographic Film Festival 2021 - 19.-24.06.2021 SIEF2021 15th Congress - 6.-9.9.2022 Anthropology and Film Programme of the 8th Congress of the Portuguese Anthropological Association.
BÜLBÜL,2016, Documentary
