Short Films: Stateless

Stateless

Son Amazon (The Last Amazon)

2011 / 22’38”/ Turkish

Director: Elif Demoglu

Samanyolu
2012 / 3’30” / Turkish

Director:Aslı Toy

Garotte

2011 /7’54”/ Turkish

Director:Deniz Tarsus

Toros Canavarı (Toros Monster)

2011/ 8’45”/ Turkish, Kurdish

Director: Fırat Yavuz

Ben Geldim Gidiyorum (I’ve Come and I am Gone)

2011 /15’01”/ Turkish

Director:Metin Akdemir

Master Plan

2011 /31’52”/ Turkish

Director:Tolga H. Yüceil

Bayrakları Seven Şehir (The City That Loves Flags)

2011/ 00’30”/ No Dialogue

Director:Levent Çetin

Ali Ata Bak (AliAtaBak)

2011 /12’/ Turkish

Director:Orhan İnce

1982

2012 / 7’33”/ Turkish

Director: Yıldıray Yıldırım

Tetrist

2012 / 2’48”/ No Dialogue

Director: Mesrure Melis Bilgin

22 September 2012

at 17:15

The Headless Women: A selection of Video Art in Turkey

78 min

Presented as a screening programme, the selection made for the Turkish Beat offers a new panorama of video art in Turkey. The programme borrows its title from the first video work in Turkey, entitled The Headless Woman or the Belly Dance by Nil Yalter in 1974. The Headless Women focuses on the current artistic discourses and new tendencies in video art in Turkey in the new millennium. Homage to the prominent artist Nil Yalter, the programme is composed of videos by emerging women artists for whom Nil Yalter and her video works played a pioneering role and offered an invaluable source of inspiration.

Artists: Aslı Cavuşoğlu, Camila Rocha, CANAN, Nilbar Güreş, İnci Furni, Bengü Karaduman, İrem Tok, Özlem Sulak, Işıl Eğrikavuk

Proposed by Çelenk Bafra, the curator, and Senem Sekban, the assistant curator of İstanbul Modern.