Chromatic

Index
Season  3



E.24      CW x Postklub Satellite
E.23      A Desperate Vitality
E.22      On the Verge
E.21       Some of Hell Is Born of Good Manners
E.20      Talking Nature
E.19        Invisible to the Eye
E.18        Uncomfortable Utopia
E.17        Belonging
E.16        Collective Utopias
E.15        The Questionarch Solidarity Walk and Fundraiser and FEED
E.14        Light Exciter
E.13        Dare You Say: Game Night
E.12        Enigma
E.11         Chronicles
E.10        Equal Distance
E.9          Syntax
E.8          Spectrum
E.7          Gelgit
E.6          Of Memories and Dreams
E.5          Refuge Worldwide presents «Parallels»
E.4          Trembling Ground
E.3          Tumultuous
E.2          Sketches of Eastern Ukraine
E.1              E.1           Thinking about the Meanings of the Archive

Se    
Season 2


E.24      110 × 3:33:08
E.23      Glaring Light
E.22      She-Pigeon
E.21       Presence of the Absent
E.20     Sunken Temple
E.19        Cinema of Cockaigne w/ anorak
E.18        Anatolian Leopard
E.17        Phantom Power & Eribòz
E.16        Maths, Euphoria, and Misinterpretations
E.15        Rockingdesk & Fine Tuning
E.14       «Chromatic Wednesdays» in collaboration with Hive International  Short Film Days  Berlin
E.13        Offseeds present  «Tales of Extinction»
E.12        The Matter of Memory
E.11         A.I.D and abet! #3
E.10        Anthony Hüseyin – Project O: «Yıldızların Altında» Release
E.9          MitEinAnder – an exploration
E.8          Troubled Relations
E.7          The Ruins of Empire
E.6          Wanderings Through Uncertainty
E.5          The Hungry and the Restless
E.4          Haunted / Desert
E.3          Part 1 / Part 2
E.2          Liquid Machine
E.1           Escargot à la Rostropovich!
             



“Chromatic Wednesdays”is a bi-weekly event series organized by Apartment Project, which promotes artistic expression across various disciplines and formats. Each month, Chromatic Wednesdays focuses on a new theme, for which two events are realized. In 2022, the themes were: Improvisation, Exile, Precarity, Mutualism, Recurrence, Echoes, Divergence, Instability, Curiosity, Resonance, Sanctuary and Inversion. In 2023: Solidarity, Upheaval, Resistance, Light, Comma, Mythology, Position, Urbanism, Unbound, Dystopia, Home and Intelligence. Chromatic Wednesdays invited artists, musicians, performers, scientists and cultural practitioners to collaborate, experiment and share their unique research, practices and experiences with each other and the public. The events included a wide range of multidisciplinary, hybrid formats, including concerts, performances, workshops, film screenings, lectures, exhibitions, readings, and panel discussions.

In 2021 the project came to life as a reaction to artistic disruption caused by the pandemic.  Today numerous challenges persistently endanger cultural production. How do artists and  audiences from different backgrounds and mediums come together? What forms of new expression can be explored or can be expanded? What kind of new networks between institutions and artists can be established? How can these networks sustain the survival of the artists?

As part of Chromatic Wednesdays’ Season 2 and 3, a total of 167 participants from countries, such as Turkey, Germany, France, Italy, Lebanon, Syria, Palestine, Ukraine, Norway, Japan, Iran, Poland, Switzerland, Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Sweden, Russia, China, the U.K, USA, Portugal, Columbia, Costa Rica, Cameroon, Namibia, Israel, Egypt, Spain, Austria, Ireland, Russia, Taiwan were invited. Of them, 92 female, 63 male and 12 non-binary participated.

The very first editions were streamed online due to Corona measures. Since June 2021, the events have been held in a hybrid format, mainly at the Apartment Project and online.
             Team:                    Emre Birişmen – Project Lead / Coordination / Video Production
Melih Sarıgöl – Project Lead / Administration / Sound Production
Selda Asal – Lead Artistic Advisor
Berk Asal – Production / Administration
Gabriela Seith – Content Writer / German Translation
Merey Şenocak / Ece Gökalp / Gökçe Berndt / Soliane Malefond – Promotion / Social Media
Suat Can Beldek – Graphic / Webdesign
Beril Ece Güler / Cemre Bayatlıer – Production Assistant

2nd Season Advisory Board:                   Selda Asal, Valentina Karga, Florian Wüst, İpek İpekçioğlu, Steffi Weismann

3rd Season Advisory Board:                   Berk Asal, Anıl Eraslan, Zorka Wollny, Stéphane Bauer, anorak (Lukas Ludwig / Johanna Markert)
                Moderation:                   Erden Kosova, Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Florian Wüst, Nil Mutluer

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Season 3
Episode 12

Theme:
Mythologie

26 Juli ´23


ENIGMA

Short film screenings
Q&A with Jasmina Metwaly, Hakkı Kurtuluş and Melik Saraçoğlu, moderated by Şirin Fulya Erensoy
The films featured in this Chromatic Wednesdays event not only draw on mythic narratives, but create their own. Using humor, irony, monsters, found footage and mythic stories, they unravel the manipulative nature of myths as they incorporate them into their cinematic work to form enigmas to be deciphered again.

«Lake of Fire» by NEOZOON (2022, Germany, 11 min, English)
On some Internet platforms, it seems that the fear of death can only be overcome if people believe in a powerful savior. Otherwise, eternal damnation awaits in hell. «Lake of Fire» collages found footage into an experimental documentary that contrasts the dualistic view of Evangelicals with its fatal consequences for planet Earth.

«A Demonstration» by Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner (2020, Germany, Netherlands, UK, 25 min, English)
«A Demonstration» is a monster film without monsters. Inspired by the existence of monster taxonomies at the heart of early modern European science, the film explores and reinterprets a way of seeing the natural world that is almost impossible to imagine from today’s vantage point: early modern naturalists were guided by a logic in which scientific truths were discovered through visual analogy. Drawing on the meaning of ‹monster› in Latin, meaning to show, reveal, demonstrate, «A Demonstration» is a poetic exploration of the boundaries of sight and the metamorphosis of form.  

«Müjdeler Var Yurdumun Toprağına Taşına, Erdi Sinemam 100 Şeref Yaşına!» («We Bear Good News for Our Beloved Country, Our Cinema Is Celebrating Its 100th Anniversary!») by Hakkı Kurtuluş and Melik Saraçoğlu (2015, Turkey, 22 min, Turkish with English subtitles)
The documentary is an interrogation of Turkish (cinema) history from 1856 to the present day, based on the mysterious and missing film «The Fall of the Russian Monument In Ayastefanos», which was allegedly shot on 14 November 1914, the so-called birthday of Turkish cinema.

«On this shore, here» by Jasmina Metwaly (2022, Germany, Belgium, France, 23 min, English)
 In this fable, in the form of an animated triptych, a Gorgon comes to life. Crowned not by snakes, but by long projections that can detect the pasts and futures of a city. The present, we learn, is frozen in Medusa’s gaze who investigates various tenses, testimonies and myths of protagonists: the Alexandrian historian who witnesses an  earthquake in 365 AD, Carbon-12 and Carbon-14 – radioactive formations due to cosmic ray strikes – and Medusa avatars as voicing narrators who take on multiple roles. Here, both the past and the future are myths in which once again we see the lost, the forgotten, the future past of a city.  
NEOZOON is a female art collective founded in 2009 in Berlin and Paris. Their work is based on the principle of collage and explores sociological questions dealing with speciesism in the Anthropocene. In their video films, the de- and recontextualization of found footage, especially YouTube material, is a recurring element. Amongst other venues, NEOZOON´s work has been exhibited at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, at ZKM in Karlsruhe, at KW Institute for Contemporary Art Berlin, and shown at national and international film festivals in Oberhausen, Rotterdam, Locarno and New York.

Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner are artists, filmmakers and writers. Since 2018, they have collaborated on moving images, installations, texts, and lectures that address the thresholds between the body and its environment, knowledge regimes and power, and forms of organization and perceptions of the natural world. Their collaborative works have been presented worldwide, including at the Berlinale, CPH:DOX, Courtisane, EXiS Seoul film festivals, CAC Vilnius, Los Angeles Filmforum, Museum of the Moving Image NY, Transmediale, Sonic Acts, Berlin Atonal, Impakt Festivals, Seoul Mediacity, Taiwan Video Art biennales, the Baltic Triennial, and have been featured on the Criterion Channel. Their films have won numerous awards, including the Silvestre Best Short Film at IndieLisboa and Best Short Documentary at Guanajuato Film Festival. They are the authors of «All Thoughts Fly: Monster, Taxonomy, Film» (Sonic Acts Press: 2021).

Hakkı Kurtuluş (b. 1980, Istanbul) is a director, (script)writer, producer and actor. He studied film, communication and German studies at the universities of Galatasaray, Lyon, Paris, Tübingen, Weimar and Berlin. A graduate of Lyon Lumière University and former scholar of École Normale Supérieure, Kurtuluş holds an MA and a PhD in German Studies from École Pratique des Hautes Études- Sorbonne and Université Paris 8. As a cultural historian, he teaches at Berlin International University, IES and CIEE Berlin.

Melik Saraçoğlu (b. 1984, Istanbul) graduated from Galatasaray Francophone High School. He completed a double degree in film and literature at Lyon Lumière University (2003-2006). In 2006, he attended Vienna University. Since 2009 he has written, directed, produced and edited several feature and short films, and won several national and international awards. He wrote the novels «Hospital Notebooks» (2015) and «Citizen Berzins» (2018). In 2021, Saraçoğlu released his latest films, «Together, We Shall Die» (fiction) and «Incurable» (documentary). He teaches at Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul.

Jasmina Metwaly is an artist and filmmaker based in Cairo and Berlin and a member of the Mosireen video collective. She works in video and film and has recently returned to drawing. Rooted in performance, theater and film, her work focuses on process-based practices with a social function generating tensions between participants and audience. Metwaly’s work has been exhibited at international art venues and festivals. She has participated at the Berlinale with «From Behind of the Monument» (2013), «Out on the Street» (2015) with Philip Rizk and «On this shore, here» (2023).
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