Goldsmiths, University of London
Graduate Student, Visual Cultures
Ph.D. Candidate
Thesis Title: “Derviş Zaim and the Ghostly Screen: Hauntology, Cartographies of Memory, New Turkish Cinema”
About
Writer and academic researcher based in London. His research interests focus on the mnemopolitics of film around the themes of displacement, narration and haunting. He conceives video medium in film cultures as a time-based technology of memory revealing self-reflexive processes in documentation. He studied film at Istanbul University and received a master’s degree in philosophy of film at University of Bosphorus, Istanbul. At present he is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Visual Cultures at Goldsmiths College, University of London. He has published in edited books and art magazines, and also contributed to art projects and exhibitions in art institutions such as Serpentine Gallery (UK), Iniva - Institute of International Visual Arts (UK), The Showroom Gallery (UK), Hackney Wicked Art Festival (UK) and Wyspa Institute of Art (Poland). He is currently writing his Ph.D. thesis, “Derviş Zaim and the Ghostly Screen: Hauntology, Cartographies of Memory, New Turkish Cinema”.
Research Interests: contemporary film theory, documentary, biopic, video oral history, experimental video essay, autoethnographic film, historical narrative cinema, and contemporary film cultures in Turkey.
