Ayhan and Me was created for a censored exhibition in Istanbul. Explicitly discussing its own production and censorship at the hands of Turkish officials, it is an incisive examination of the power of images, the roles and responsibilities of representation, sanctioned history-making, and the charged relationship between art and state control. Also see Artist Talk: belit sağ in Deep Focus Short.
All Short films at IFFR 2017
Also in this combined programme
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Bad Mama, Who Cares
Exceptional portrait of a geologist and her home, somewhere near a remote railway line in the middle of nowhere, among geological faults and t
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Welcome to David Wojnarowicz Week
Steve Reinke proposes a new holiday with the motto MORE RAGE LESS DISGUST: David Wojnarowicz Week and takes us through his seven days of celebratio
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DAT LIKWID LAND
Wandering through New Orleans and its cemeteries, a notebook is found. The search for its origins leads into the far corners of the city and the su
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AAA (Mein Herz)
Recorded entirely in one take, four different compositions are performed as one by a young woman. The intention is to keep the original style, temp
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2016
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2017
- Length
- 14"
- Medium/Format
- File
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