Festival ECRÃ
of Experimental and Art and Cinema
GOING AROUND IN MY HEAD
Walking around my head
Melisa Yağmur Saydı
Turquia
2023
Videoarte
Curta-Metragem
Unable to fully wake up after a nap, Cankus decides to take a walk to regroup. However, she continues to oscillate between dream and reality as she walks through the city. She is anxious yet dreamy, alienated yet following the news. She wanders through an unstable mental space in post-COVID Turkey, affected by inflation, authoritarianism, pollution, uneven urbanization, neoliberalism, and feelings of isolation. She describes a mental noise caused by uncertainty and constant political instability, but also seeks humor and beauty in all this confusion, with a material and experimental approach to video.
general information
edition
8° Festival ECRÃ
date and
time
Cinemateca do MAM, Estação NET Botafogo, Streaming do ECRÃ
27-30/06/2024
04-07/07/2024
15h-20h
24h por dia
duration in min
10
debut
Première Latina
classification
indicative
L / Free for all audiences / Livre Para Todos Os Públicos
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festivals where he performed
tags
March 2024 Si cinéma - International Art School Films Festival
Herouville Saint-Clair, France
Nov.-Dec. 2023 UFO - International video art festival
West End Hotel - Nice, France
Winner of the South Emergence Prize
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Melisa Yağmur Saydı
I was born in Istanbul in 1998. I completed a double degree at the University of Lyon II, in cinema and anthropology. During my undergraduate studies, I worked on film sets and did an exchange year at the University of Chile in Santiago, where I made my first documentary about the Chilean social uprising in 2019. Later, I completed my Master of Arts at the Beaux-Arts de Marseille. During my Masters, I started working with experimental film and 2D animation. With an interdisciplinary approach and a video medium, my work is a mix of multiple media and approaches: animation, photography, video, visual coding, sound design, performance and scenography. My work has been shown in France, Finland, the Netherlands and the USA so far. My latest film “Walking around my head” was awarded the Prix Sud Emergence at the international video art festival OVNI. I am currently based between Istanbul and Marseille.
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