Experiments in Cinema Film Festival (v8.53)
19 Nisan, 2013
Albuquerque, New Mexico
AMOA-Arthouse
18 Mayıs, 2013
Austin, Texas
İki gösterim de Moon and Stars Project of the American Turkish Society'nin desteği ile gerçekleşecek. Programda Zeynep Dadak ile Merve Kayan, Can Eskinazi, Eytan İpeker, Yoel Meranda, Jonathan Schwartz ve Mustafa Uzuner'in film ve videoları bulunyor. Ayrı yetten, Austin'daki gösterimde Deniz Tortum'un bir kısa videosu da gösterilecek. Bu programın küratörlüğünü yapdığımdan dolayı, iki gösterimde de hazır bulunacağım. Programı altta ingilizce olarak görebilirsiniz. Deniz Tortum'un kısa videosunun bilgilerini de yakında bu sayfaya ekleyeceğim. Nice Küçük Sinemalara! - Ekrem Serdar
Program:
Republic Day by Can Eskinazi
4.25min / digital / sound / 2010
A Preface to Red by Jonathan Schwartz
6min / 16mm / sound / 2010
A single recording, recorded in a tunnel that one passes through after exiting a boat taking you from one continent to another, where people are selling bright colored toys and bright white sneakers. for the brief variations in the movement on the periphery—Jonathan Schwartz
océanéant by Yoel Meranda
2.25min / digital / silent / 2009
“Yoel Meranda indulges a fascination with color in his extraordinary abstraction océanéant : fields of translucent reds gather upon themselves until they seem to congeal into something with mass, weight, and texture.” – Fred Camper
Peeling by Eytan İpeker
6min / digital / silent / 2011
Neyse Halin… by Mustafa Uzuner
5.43min / digital / sound / 2007
diagonal by Yoel Meranda
0.56min / digital / silent / 2009
Moscow Diaries, Part 2 – Statues by Can Eskinazi
2.46min / digital / sound / 2011
A mystery thriller featuring a rather unusual Russian cabdriver.
Material Ghost by Mustafa Uzuner
2.31min / digital / silent / 2010
Shot on an old SONY HDV camera usıng a macro lens converter.
Highway Screening by Yoel Meranda
2.07min / digital / silent / 2010
Silent video shot in İzmir while travelling from Urla to downtown (and back, at night) by car. Thanks goes to Can and the Eskinazi family for the wonderful hospitality. Do not watch this if you have photosensitive epilepsy.
Siamese by Eytan İpeker
4.37min / digital / silent / 2011
A video that winks back at its audience – Eytan Ipeker
Bu Sahilde (On this Coast) by Zeynep Dadak & Merve Kayan
21.47min / 16mm / sound / 2010
Bu Sahilde (On the Coast) is a short essay film on the ephemeral feeling of summer, observed in Erikli, a small coastal town on the Aegean Sea in Turkey. The film reflects on the nature of vacation, as it is a transformed version of reality, the fantastical counterpart to winter.
Bios
Born in 1978 in Balıkesir, Zeynep Dadak has received her undergraduate degree in Film-TV from Marmara University and her graduate degree from Istanbul Bilgi University. Making short films and documentaries since 2001, she is also a writer and an editorial board member of Altyazı Film Magazine. Dadak teaches film classes at various universities, and is currently a PhD candidate in Cinema Studies at New York University.
Can Eskinazi graduated from Bard College. His writings and reviews have appeared in Altyazi Magazine, and his film The Phantom Behind screened in Anthology Film Archives. He lives in Istanbul.
Eytan Ipeker was born in 1981 in Istanbul and graduated from New York University’s Film & TV Production Program. His experimental and narrative shorts were screened at numerous international festivals around the world, including the Abstracta Film Festival in Italy and the Toronto Film Festival. In 2010, he won the best experimental video award at 30th IFSAK National Short Film and Documentary Festival. He is currently working on a documentary project on the acclaimed Turkish pianist Idil Biret.
Born in 1981, Merve Kayan grew up in Uzunköprü. After graduating from the Cinema Department at Denison University, she has worked as an editor and director of photography for various film directors in New York and Istanbul. She received her MFA in Visual Arts at University of California, San Diego and also taught film classes here. She has been making shorts and documentaries since 1999, which have been screened at many national and international film festivals.
Yoel Meranda lived in Chicago between 2000-2004 and worked at The Film-Makers' Cooperative between 2004-2006. Since 2006, he's back in Istanbul. Yoel's experimental videos have screened in Toronto, Edinburgh and Thessaloniki International Film Festivals. In 2011, five videos of his got a collective Honorable Mention at Onion City. Yoel's website is waysofseeing.org.
Jonathan Schwartz makes short films that circulate primarily in an experimental film context. He continues to work in 16mm film, producing films that are in conversation with travel, history, poetry, and sound. Recent completed works include ‘Between Gold’ and ‘A Preface to Red’ – portraits of dividing lines, gesture, rhythm, and light via riding boats back and forth on the Bosphorus, as well as an on-going series of short works that comprise an album of films entitled, the 33 1/3 series. His films have screened in the US and abroad in venues that include the New York Film Festival, London Film Festival, Intl Film Festival Rotterdam, Toronto Film Festival, Ann Arbor, Wexner Center for the Arts, Institute of Contemporary Art -Boston, Museo Nacional Centro de Art Reina Sofia, Harvard Film Archive, Pacific Film Archive, and others. Two of his films are in the permanent collection at the Austrian Film Museum in Vienna.
Since 2009 Jonathan Schwartz has been an assistant professor at Keene State College, coming from Boston where he taught at the School of Museum of Fine Arts and Massachusetts College of Art previously. Additionally, he has worked in freelance post-production with John Rubin Productions and others, and was employed by Emerson College as their film post-production manager. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts from Massachusetts College of Art + Design.
Ekrem Serdar is a filmmaker / programmer from Ankara, Turkey. He completed his M.F.A at the University at Buffalo, SUNY, and likes screening at Rustbelt Books, in Buffalo, NY. He frequently shows his work with the Küçük Sinemalar group, based in Istanbul, and is a co-programmer of Experimental Response Cinema in Austin, TX.
Mustafa Uzuner was born 1981 in Amasya. He studied Electronics Engineering in Istanbul and received a master’s degree from the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema at Concordia University. He currently lives and works in Montreal.
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