Category: All Films
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Inside Out Group Action Documentary
https://www.insideoutproject.net/en/explore/group-action/people-who-dream-of-peace I worked as co-organiser and social media campaign manager with local NGO Visual Voices, responsible for finding funding, organising the event and making short documentary as well as other short snippets for social media.
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Jailbirds
Jailbirds is a feminist character-based documentary regarding Dr Rasiha Serdaroglu’s influence on the women’s prison in Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus. Dr Rasiha Serdaroglu was publicly arrested and jailed for 2 years for allegedly performing anesthesia on women getting abortions past the legal limit of 10 weeks. The documentary will consist of wide shots and…
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Prince Ali (2020)
Final film can be found here: https://ecemsinaygoldsmiths.wordpress.com/prince-ali/ Trailer: “Prince Ali” is a light-hearted interactive, performative documentary seemingly tackling the deteriorating relationship between me and my dog. Ali is a tiny Chihuahua with a strong sense of self and constant need for attention, who usually forgets he is a dog in the first place. Ali…
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5+1 Women, Doc Film, 5:27 minutes, 2019
IPE for Goldsmiths – Please make sure the video starts at 00:30 to avoid the colour bars/soundcheck. Please note there is no audio editing done for this version and a newer version is available.
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Fal – Fortune of a Country, video, 7:09 minutes, 2019
Artist Statement: Fal (Fortune of a country) is a 7-minute, split screen film regarding the history of Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus narrated as a Turkish coffee fortune reading, made for the degree show in my final year at Reading. The film is presented in a specific setting/atmosphere of a psychic café, created with props…
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Blinding Goats, video, 5:35 minutes, 2019
Blinding Goats is a short film showing my family having traditional Turkish food in an observational documentary format. The film was displayed with kebabs so the viewers could sit on the table and enjoy the food with the rest of my family. It entails organic conversations between the family members with some commentary explaining their personal lives…
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Embargo, video essay, 5:40 mins, 2019
Based on the political, ethnographic and historical existence or non-existence of my home country, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, I adopted documentary style fully by making a longer, single channel film, and by explaining the context through a voiceover, talking heads and found footage. Inspired by Adam Curtis and John Akomfrah, as well as Abu…
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Turkey Oaks, video essay, 2:47 mins, October 2018
Turkey oaks are ornamental trees native to the Balkans and Turkey, brought over to Britain in the 18th century. They were planted at the Harris Gardens in Reading by George Spencer-Churchill, 5th Duke of Marlborough, when the garden used to be a part of a now demolished Victorian house. It was later discovered that the Turkey oaks…
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Annanne, video essay, 3:55, 2017
Statement: Annanne intends to discuss the complexity induced to the identity of Cyprus due to political, economic and social the separation, through looking at personal accounts. My grandmother is nominally Muslim, strictly against Greek Cypriots, as she is still traumatised by the events of war that separated the island in two between 1963-1974. Nonetheless, she visits…
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Suicide Girls, video essay, 2:18, excerpt from Orhan Pamuk’s Snow, 2017
Password: ecemsinay For my term abroad in Prague, I focused on continuing what I had been doing in Reading to build up to a coherent style. I have been intrigued by the problematic theory of Orientalism and the effects of Westernisation in Middle Eastern countries, especially Turkey, and have been experimenting with visualising my ideas…
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