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art

14:21

DARKROOM

At the modern-day crossroads of Turkey and Syria, the neighborhood of Istasyon is taken over by children with cameras. Through their gaze, they transform cinder block villages into portals and roam freely across abandoned train tracks to Sirkhane Darkroom, an oasis of red light and pomegranate trees, where their images are born. Darkroom is an experimental and celebratory portrait of Istasyon’s youth and their capacity to forge an alternate reality within a conflict zone. Embedded in this vibrant 16mm film, a co-creation between the film crew and these photography students is a reverence for the mysterious power and intimacy of analog image-making. Starring - SIRKHANE DARKROOM Additional Camera - STUDENTS AT SIRKHANE DARKROOM WORKSHOP Sound Mixer - AIDAN REYNOLDS Colorist - BRENNAN BARSELL Produced by - ASLI BAYKAL GILLIAN GARCIA RAF FELLNER Executive Producer - ASLI BAYKAL SERBEST SALIH

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fashion

00:19

DOOMSTER

DOOMSTER was created in 2022 by its designer Berfin Özgür. The Istanbul-based brand, whose name means 'someone who predicts doom', mostly uses a tough attitude, tribal forms and personal details in its designs.

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fashion

06:54

LA CASA DE RAISA VANESSA | Amore Serpente

Born in 1986 in Istanbul, Raisa & Vanessa Sason had fashion in their DNA. They started designing at the age of 15 knowing it was inevitable to turn their talent into a profession. Following their graduation from high school, Raisa &Vanessa studied Theatre and Costume design at the prestigious London College of Fashion. Their background knowledge and relevance to theatre costumes can be still seen in every collection of Raisa & Vanessa. Creativity lies deep within Raisa & Vanessa’s minds. Next to revealing the imagination and tailoring in each collection the girls also push the limits in all forms of communication.

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interviews

05:14

Desire Rebecca Moheb-Zandi

Desire Rebecca Moheb-Zandi ntegrates personal history and cultural identity in her large-scale, sculptural tapestries. Drawing from memories of her childhood in Turkey, where she passed hours watching her grandmother weave on a loom, Moheb-Zandi meshes traditional techniques with modern motifs and media. In addition to including rubber tubing, acrylic dowels and synthetic netting in her work, Moheb-Zandi fashions the loom as a sort of analogue computer, where the code is her pattern, and her manipulation of the pattern creates optical resonance and movement. The diversity of material and fabrication techniques that Moheb-Zandi uses function on formal and conceptual levels; her work is visually dynamic and it serves as a record of the artist’s life and journeys.

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music

03:08

Adakanbo - Tıngırtı

Şarkı Sözleri ve Daha Fazla Bilgi: Söz - Müzik: Adakanbo (Ada Kanbur) Mix & Mastering: Cenk Ergenç Prodüktör: Adakanbo, Cenk Ergenç Saksafon: Ati Pikal Kapak: Simay Yaman Yapım Yönetmeni: Tolga Akyıldız (müzikmentor) Yürütücü Yapımcı: Cihad Satıroğlu, Berkay Öktem (BBI Music Co.) Menajerlik: BBI Management Creative Direction: Afterwork Creative Director & Videographer: Yasin Arıbuğa Director & Post Editor: Yasin Arıbuğa 3D Design: Yasin Arıbuğa & Simay Yaman 3D Environment Artist: Abdullah Kesikbaş Video Producer: Sude Belkıs Assistant: Berkay Işık

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music

48:23

BaBa ZuLa Boiler Room Istanbul Live Set

Baba Zula is a Turkish alternative musical group, founded in Istanbul in 1996. With a wide variety of influences and a wide range of instruments, they create a unique psychedelic sound.

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art

04:32

Dilara Conquers Istanbul

Camera Assistant: Sinan Akdogan Director Assistant: Kerem Sahinoglu Edit: Adem Ustaoglu Online: Sinan Akdogan Color: Gokhan Goktepe Graphic Designer: Kutberk Kaya Narrative Editor: Izlem Arsiya Production Manager: Begum Tabak Skaters: Yusuf Duran Kerem Sahinoglu Cagatay Akdeniz Cengizhan Bayir Azra Sanduvaç A Yillar Ziyan Production 2020

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art

02:12

REFIK ANADOL - MELTING MEMORIES: ENGRAM AS DATA SCULPTURE

Thanks to a close collaboration with the EDP Foundation, L.E.V. Festival resumes programming at the Iglesia de la Laboral with the installation Melting Memories: Engram as data sculpture by Refik Anadol. An exciting project about the materiality of memories and their representation that represents a perfect dialogue between science, art and technology. Refik Anadol, of Turkish origin, living in Los Angeles, is a brilliant audiovisual artist who reconsiders a new aesthetic, technical and dynamic perception of space in his projects.

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art

02:16

Kutluğ Ataman's Mesopotamian Dramaturgies

In this video we have a look at the exhibition “Kutlug Ataman: Mesopotamian Dramaturgies” at Niru Ratnam Gallery in London. The show is part of an ongoing series that reflects on the history and present of the region centered on Eastern Turkey where Ataman is now based, as well as the cultural and geopolitical forces at play there. The central work is a twenty-screen television installation called 'The Stream' (2022) which is the first major new work shown by Ataman since 'The Portrait of Sakip Sabanci' (exhibited at the Venice Biennale in 2015 and The Royal Academy, London in 2016). The exhibition runs until May 21, 2022. Using nature as metaphor, The Stream is a video installation made of televisions and found wood that is concerned with rebirth, renewal and the constant effort to construct meaning.

10

music

02:58

aisu - Offline

Gaffer: Onur Karaca Set Assistant: Berkay Işık Studio: Sumo MUA: Gülşah Uzun Beauty: Ege Eryalaz

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music

03:18

Seda Erciyes - Uçak (Virtual Performance)

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music

03:18

Adakanbo - Karala

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At the modern-day crossroads of Turkey and Syria, the neighborhood of Istasyon is taken over by children with cameras. Through their gaze, they transform cinder block villages into portals and roam freely across abandoned train tracks to Sirkhane Darkroom, an oasis of red light and pomegranate trees, where their images are born. Darkroom is an experimental and celebratory portrait of Istasyon’s youth and their capacity to forge an alternate reality within a conflict zone. Embedded in this vibrant 16mm film, a co-creation between the film crew and these photography students is a reverence for the mysterious power and intimacy of analog image-making. Starring - SIRKHANE DARKROOM Additional Camera - STUDENTS AT SIRKHANE DARKROOM WORKSHOP Sound Mixer - AIDAN REYNOLDS Colorist - BRENNAN BARSELL Produced by - ASLI BAYKAL GILLIAN GARCIA RAF FELLNER Executive Producer - ASLI BAYKAL SERBEST SALIH

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