Deniz Eroglu

The Shipwrecked Triptych

Cast from humanity yet tethered to it – to be shipwrecked is to exist in this ambivalent space. Filmmaker Deniz Eroglu uses three independent episodes to probe this concept; a nursing home on New Year’s Eve, a sun-drenched Congolese family home and the medieval German countryside.

The Shipwrecked Triptych

Cast from humanity yet tethered to it – to be shipwrecked is to exist in this ambivalent space. Filmmaker Deniz Eroglu uses three independent episodes to probe this concept; a nursing home on New Year’s Eve, a sun-drenched Congolese family home and the medieval German countryside.

A Piece of Work

A witty and intelligent meta-film in which the Danish-Turkish artist uses a performative re-enactment of the filming of one of his earlier films to illuminate the artistic process from new angles.

A Vacation

The arrival of a solitary stranger to a remote area in the Turkish highlands slowly upsets the unspoken social structure of the local community, as there is more to this man than his modest appearance might disclose at first sight. As strange events begin to unfold, the locals become increasingly suspicious to the outsider. Operating within a cinematic fiction of its own enigmatic design, ‘A Vacation’ immerses us in a specific yet elusive world where the silent and misty landscapes turn into the site of an equally silent violence and repression. With its evocative imagery and dark-scented ambience, Eroglu’s elliptic narrative offers an analysis of the illusion of freedom and the mechanics of repression at a time when these sort of reflections can be applied all too well to what is happening in the world around us.

The Bedridden Triptych – Contentment, Making Something of Oneself, Losing

A practitioner, a prophet and a poor, tortured soul. Three protagonists, who for more or less articulate reasons have decided to spend their lives in bed, on the margin of the Danish welfare state – isolated from the world, which as the ‘Prophet’ puts it while he is being cared for by the municipality’s home carers, is nothing but a grand illusion.