A poetic movie film on personal and collective memory. A woman of Tturkish origin, following old Anatolian practices, walks down through the ruins of a Roman-era hospital and down the streets of a mountain village antod invites us to change the way we see the world.
Güldem Durmaz lives and works between Brussels, Istanbul and Paris. Her work includes and mixes combines filmmaking, video installations and live performances. Her short fiction films, such as Soför/Chauffeur (2001) and Koro (2002), were selected and awarded received awards in many film festivals (Locarno, Venice, Saint Petersburg, Amiens, Washington DC…). Her work focuses on the links between memory, language and cultural or cross-cultural identity, that she looks into with both actors and non-actors, secret or made-up languages and , actual or dreamt imagined locations and situations.
Guldem Durmaz (filmmaker)