Deniz Tortum

Shadowtime

Showcases Alma, a mysterious guide to this world, it leads you through questions around the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities, and the virtual as a place to take shelter.

Shadowtime

Showcases Alma, a mysterious guide to this world, it leads you through questions around the climate crisis, irreconcilable realities, and the virtual as a place to take shelter.

Neandria

Suna is a teenage athlete who lives with her mother in a mountain village much like the world at large: here, things are run by older men who know it all, environmental destruction looms, and greed beats in most hearts.

Our Ark

OUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.

A Sentimental Science

How many neurons do you need to recognize your mother? "A Sentimental Science" explores the limitations of our understanding of how our experience is encoded in neural activity.

Every Hologenome For Themselves

“Every Hologenome For Themselves” is a series of microscopic stages and DNA-inspired performance scores for the world we live in now.

Phases of Matter

Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.

Phases of Matter

Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual.

Anatolian Trip

Eager in spirit for a better world, an amateur rock band from bohemian Istanbul embarks on an impromptu tour to mainland Turkey, in hopes of sharing their music and love with fellow countrymen.

If Only There Were Peace

In rural Turkey, a mismatched film crew guns for international acclaim with a topical melodrama

Zayiat

A man falls into the Bosphorus on a snowy night. His son, Mete half-heartedly searches for him in wintered Istanbul.

Earth

An attempt to make a poem film. A reaction to Efe Murad's poem, "Earth": your sweet and dream instances earth. if the whole of deprivation is tempted. if it truly asks and truly speaks. deprivation reunites earth. how the darknesses through your eyes. hate-kernel burst out of time. to all of the love morsels of love. maybe one day we will love each other. don't leave me alone engulf me earth.

Merkez

Türkiye's largest film archive lies in this building. Movies watched and unwatched, a controversial past, a controversial future... The most material view in the history of Turkish cinema: A building in Balmumcu, rooms, doors, reels and films...

Flux

A collaboration between Reha Erdem and Deniz Tortum.