Come Rain or Shine | Yaz Kış Demeden

Turkey, Armenia
Experimental Documentary

Writer and director : Zeynep Güzel
Original music: Mert Hocaoğlu

Original release date: 11 April 2019

The filmmaker creates the narrative of questioning journeys made from Turkey to Armenia, reexamining the heritage of trauma, loss and belonging in the uniqueness of contemporary Armenia’s deindustrialized cities. Despite language and national divides, she connects with Ashot and Karine who steadfastly bare their struggles, becoming her chosen family as she searches for the past and finds revealing attachments to the foreign yet familiar country. In her poem-like letters, she surmises the meaning of the past, foothold in an uncertain present and a firm, even hopeful resolve for the future.

Trailer
vimeo.com/322232257

Bonus III - Outro

Bonus II - Shine

Bonus I - Alienated

Credits

Haunted

Thin Ice

Karine's

Hats' Ch'kar

Dystopic Symptoms is an artist collective, which is hung out between past and future. The collective tries to express their stucknesses, criticisms, concerns, and feelings about shallow political discourses, every kind of bigotry and bias, anthropogenic hazards, in short failures of the Anthropocene, through creating art pieces that are in hybrid performative forms.

The collective members are Emrah Gökdemir, Mert Hocaoğlu, Paweł Korbus & Serra Özhan-Hocaoğlu

The music piece, The Story of Prickly Pears, created for the Off University's 'Reflection Series', by Serra and Mert with the poetical story written by Emrah and Yael. Their story takes place in somewhere abandoned due to political clashes, since sometime in the world. However, somehow life goes on there, at least for the prickly pears and other wild inhabitants, as many creatures in the world should have to be…

Credits: 
The Story of Prickly Pears
4’15’’, 2020
Music: Mert & Serra Özhan-Hocaoğlu
Lyrics: Emrah Gökdemir & Yael Navaro
https://off-university.com/tr-TR/page/the-story-of-prickly-pears

Dystopic Symptoms - The Story Of Prickly Pears

‘Arrest’ is a music composition from the manifesto of the ‘Performing (In)visible Borders’ project co-created by NAHNOO & Antakya Performative Collective. It is a participatory performative art project where children, artists, volunteers, and activists tell stories of transition from the illusion of control to the freedom of participating Horsh Beirut - the largest park in Beirut. 

Credits: 

Arrest
5’ 04’’, 2020
Music: Mert & Serra Özhan-Hocaoğlu
Voice: Jessica Chemali, Serra Özhan, workshop artists, and children of Horsh 
Manifesto: Melissa Kurtuluş, Paweł Korbus

‘Performing (In)visible Borders’ is an initiative of Farah Makki, Emrah Gökdemir, Jessica Chemali, and Melissa Kurtuluş & supported by Tandem Turkey 2018-19.  www.tandemforculture.org 
https://vimeo.com/339825984
https://issuu.com/farahmakki8/docs/low-final_publication_performing_invisible_borders

In memoriam of whose lost their lives, homes, and closed ones; because of dreadful political governances.

Mert Hocaoglu

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