Professor Sami Şekeroğlu Cinema-TV Center houses Turkey’s largest film archive. Some seen and some unseen films, a controversial past, an unknown future. Deniz Tortum and Esen Tan bring in a 360 degree look to this archive. The most materialistic sight of Turkey’s cinema history: A building in Balmumcu, rooms, door, bobbins and pellicles.
Screening date 26 May 2022, 19:00
YouTube channel Altyazı Sinema Dergisi
Center archives the corridors, rooms and film boxes of Turkey’s largest film archive. As it goes through thousands of films within Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University Prof. Sami Şekeroğlu Cinema-TV Center archive, it brings up questions about the archive’s present state and its future. What does this archive hold for us?”
– Deniz Tortum & Esen Tan
Center
5 min. / 2022 / Turkish (with English subtitles)
Video Deniz Tortum & Esen Tan
360 Recording Derin Emre
Deniz Tortum
Born in 1989, İstanbul; Deniz Tortum is a director and media artist. His films and new media works have been shown at various festivals, including Venice Film Festival, SXSW, IFFR, IDFA, Hot Docs and Dokufest. He was selected as one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Cinema” by Filmmaker Magazine in 2019. His full feature documentary Phases of Matter made its world premiere at 2020 Rotterdam Film Festival’s Bright Future section, followed by winning Best Documentary awards at Antalya and Istanbul Film Festivals. Our Ark, his co-directed short with Kathryn Hamilton, made its world premiere at IDFA 2021 and won the Best Short Documentary award at İstanbul Film Festival.
Esen Tan
Esen Tan was born in 1989, Istanbul. After finishing her BA at Yıldız Technical University’s Combined Arts program, Tan continued her education at Kadir Has University’s master program on Cinema-TV. At the moment she is doing her PHD on Communication Sciences at Kadir Has University, as well studying and writing on cinema.
