A video cartography assembled with aerial photographs, maps and news on the material shaping of the coastline in Istanbul. It focuses on three stories from northern Istanbul Airport (2000-2020), Yenikapı landfill (1945-2014) and Marmara mucilage (2015-2021) as the coastlines disappear, re-appear in forms of flatlands, landfills and whirlpools.
Did you recognize that the coastline of Istanbul is slowly changing? There is an ongoing disposition between water and earth. “This is not a Line” experiments with a way of looking at the city by the changing lines between water and land, shaped by humans; through the spaces of solid and fluid; the dry and wet.
Flatland
2021
02’00’’ Cartographic video of the lost coastlines at the construction site of the third Istanbul Airport.
A trans-media video about the plants that are grown in a diasporic community garden. The video uses 3d scans and AR videos to speculate a future archive of the garden against potential climatic extinction.
This short video cartographic poem follows formations of deltas to get closer and intimate with the nature of feminist thinking. Two characters come together: Etel Adnan with her poem “The Book of the Sea"; and the satellite photographs of the Çukurova Delta, in Southern Anatolia.
Experimental video on the cartographic cinema of “Hiroshima Mon Amour” (1960) by Alain Resnais. The video is a speculative place-making experiment. It layers present-day street views of the city with clips from the original film.
Official Music Video for Ars Longa’s Heyùla (2021). Produced by the prints by Gustav Doré for “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
Official Music video for Ars Longa’s Karavan (2021). Video produced by found footage of tourists visiting Istanbul, Bosphorus, Princes Islands, and the coastal towns of the Aegean Sea in Turkey in the 1970s.