PROJECTS
FILM
‘A’mantia’
‘A Place That Time Forgot’
analog & digital collage:
embroidery:
illustration:
music:
‘Janatolia revisit the traditions of Anatolian music’ - Janatolia is a transnational multilingual music group focusing on South West Asian, Mediterranean & Balkan traditional & folk songs. Djiboutik is a world music programme on Radio Panik - a free radio which defines itself as an associative radio of expression and creation and as a multi and intercultural radio. It was created in 1983 on the initiative of a group of people campaigning against racism and for human rights.
PORTFOLIO
Film
- 2025 The Land of Common Disgrace, actor/participant, set build
- 2022 Neo Nahda, actor
- 2022 A’mantia, writer-director, co-producer, actor
- 2022 A Place That Time Forgot, co-producer, DoP, voice actor
- 2022 With Love, co-producer, co-writer, actor
- 2023 Aladağ: Bir Yürek Yangını, assistant director, camera, editor
- 2015 A Flag Without a Country, script and continuity, production assistant
Theatre
- 2024 Women Who Blow on Knots (Arcola Theatre), actor
- 2023 ΑΧΑΡΝΗΣ / ΠΡΑΤΗΡΙΟΥΧΟΙ (Apo Mixanis, Athens), actor
- 2018 Kusursuz Dünya (Hata Yapım Atölyesi, Istanbul), actor
- 2017 Gümüş Ay (Sabanci Museum, Istanbul), music assistant
- 2017 Punta Atmak (Istanbul), assistant director, musician, narrator
- 2017 Toros Canavarı (Istanbul), actor and assistant director
- 2017 Silent Migration (Frieburg Theatre), translator
Commissions and Collaborations
- 2025, ‘Qommunity Festival’, We come together, we grieve together, artist/facilitator, Queers on the Move, Antwerp
- 2024, ‘Space for SWANA’, artist, nafs space x 3eib exhibition, London
- 2024, ‘Queering Rituals’, artist and writer, Queers on the Move, Brussels
- 2024, ‘Mouth of the Gods’ embroiderer, Border Crossings, London
- 2023, ‘Random Acts of Community Care’, experimental embroidery artist and workshop facilitator, Queers on the Move, Brussels
- 2023, ‘Taking Care of Yourself’, illustrator, The Black Wellbeing Collective, London
- 2022, ‘Humxns Beyond Borders’, artist-muralist, Queers on the Move, Brussels
- 2022, ‘Other Isles’ I and II, Cypriot and Maltese art and culture festival, musician and singer, Birmingham
- 2022, ‘Namaz: Poems, Meditations, & Rituals’, illustrator
DIVINATION & TALES
Tarot & Tasseography
- email for enquiries
Poems:
Nunc est nunc non est quasi flos qui crescit in arvo
If Daisies Could Speak
Stories & Histories:
Hypatia (coming soon)
The Scandalous Bellydancer From Outer Space
The story of Özcan Tekgül; an unapologetic woman whose body curved and twisted, shaking and shimmering across - not only - stages around the world, but also in outer space.
WORKSHOPS
Talks/Events/Workshops
- 2025, ‘A Daily Practice / A Form of Resistance’, tea-making workshop, facilitator, Other Cinemas Weekender, London
- 2025, ‘Migrants in Culture Spring Celebration’, Death Cafe: Mourn the Dead, Fight Like Hell for the Living & Imagining the Border as Creature, artist/facilitator, London
- 2025, ‘Maximise Your Festival Run’, panellist, FOMO House, London
- 2024, ‘Masterclass in Submitting Shorts w/ LSFF’, Good Growth Hub, London
- 2024, ‘Scattered Seeds: Reaping What They Sow’, organiser, Antiuniversity Festival teach-in, London
- 2024, ‘Crossing’, special film screening, host and panellist, Mubi UK and Counterpoints Arts, London
- 2023, ‘*kraftuz klexos’, experimental embroidery workshop, facilitator, Random Acts of Collective Care, Brussels
- 2023, ‘On Motherhood’, panellist, Random Acts of Collective Care, Brussels
- 2019 – 2022, ‘Acting for Screen’, camera technician and filmmaking session, National Youth Theatre, London
- 2023, ‘Janatolia Revisite Les Traditions Musicales Anatoliennes’, singer/musician, Djiboutik world music programme on Radio Panik, Brussels
- 2021, ‘La rose est-elle rose? - Singing multilingual music as socio-political activism’, panellist, Bodies of Knowledge, Brussels
- 2015 – 2020, Collective Filmmaking, facilitator, Independent Cinema Collective, Istanbul
- 2015 – 2020, Acting Workshops, facilitator, Independent Cinema Collective, Istanbul
- 2017, ‘Haziran'da Ölmek Zor - Nazım Hikmet ve Ahmed Arif’, panellist and performer, Birikimhane, Istanbul
- 2017, ‘Bedri Rahmi Eyüboğlu’, panellist and performer Birikimhane, Istanbul
- 2012 – 2020, Documentarist Film Festival panels, q&a’s, moderator and translator, Istanbul
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