Phases of Matter

Neandria

Suna is a teenage athlete who lives with her mother in a mountain village much like the world at large: here, things are run by older men who know it all, environmental destruction looms, and greed beats in most hearts.

Anatolian Trip

Eager in spirit for a better world, an amateur rock band from bohemian Istanbul embarks on an impromptu tour to mainland Turkey, in hopes of sharing their music and love with fellow countrymen.

Floodplain

Zayiat

A man falls into the Bosphorus on a snowy night. His son, Mete half-heartedly searches for him in wintered Istanbul.

Earth

An attempt to make a poem film. A reaction to Efe Murad's poem, "Earth": your sweet and dream instances earth. if the whole of deprivation is tempted. if it truly asks and truly speaks. deprivation reunites earth. how the darknesses through your eyes. hate-kernel burst out of time. to all of the love morsels of love. maybe one day we will love each other. don't leave me alone engulf me earth.

Our Ark

OUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.

Merkez

Türkiye's largest film archive lies in this building. Movies watched and unwatched, a controversial past, a controversial future... The most material view in the history of Turkish cinema: A building in Balmumcu, rooms, doors, reels and films...

Shadowtime

Showcases Alma, a mysterious guide to this world, it leads you through questions around the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities, and the virtual as a place to take shelter.

The Rise and Fall and Rise of David

Artist Serkan Özkaya spends seven years obsessively attempting to recreate the world’s most famous sculpture, Michelangelo’s David—at twice its original size and washed in gold

If Only There Were Peace

In rural Turkey, a mismatched film crew guns for international acclaim with a topical melodrama

Every Hologenome For Themselves

“Every Hologenome For Themselves” is a series of microscopic stages and DNA-inspired performance scores for the world we live in now.

A Sentimental Science

How many neurons do you need to recognize your mother? "A Sentimental Science" explores the limitations of our understanding of how our experience is encoded in neural activity.

Capturing the Killer Nurse

Charlie Cullen was an experienced registered nurse, trusted and beloved by his colleagues at Somerset Medical Center in New Jersey. He is also one of history’s most prolific serial killers, with a body count potentially numbering in the hundreds across multiple medical facilities in the Northeast.