O Bahçeli Ev / That Garden House (2025)
Multi-Channel Digital Video & Installation / Colour / Sound (16mm transferred to digital, handycam footage, family and personal archive materials); 18 min / Loop
O Bahçeli Ev / That Garden House (2025) is an autobiographical film about the juxtaposition of remembering and forgetting. It moves through fragments of memory that emerge from patterns such as narratives, gestures, and objects. Centering the artist and her mother, as the representatives of two worlds, prison and the outside, the film exposes the shared emotions and memories manifesting themselves in these different worlds. Two women follow a ritual of asking the same question repetitively about the Garden House. As the answers shift with each recollection, the conversations themselves become fragmented, like overlapping memories of the same moment, each one revealing a different version of the past. The act of remembering becomes more than just looking back; it’s a collective way of holding onto the present.
I am a London-based artist filmmaker from Türkiye. Drawing on my experiences as a Kurdish political prisoner for nine and a half years, I am particularly interested in personal stories that are easily lost within the grand narratives. In the filmmaking process, I find myself often captured by the natural flow of the material, allowing it to intuitively lead the work. My experience of the present is always connected to the past, and I strive to make films that use memory as a form of resistance, a way of making space for what remains unspoken and unseen in both personal and political histories.
Instagram: @dagtulin
Multi-Channel Digital Video & Installation / Colour / Sound (16mm transferred to digital, handycam footage, family and personal archive materials); 18 min / Loop
O Bahçeli Ev / That Garden House (2025) is an autobiographical film about the juxtaposition of remembering and forgetting. It moves through fragments of memory that emerge from patterns such as narratives, gestures, and objects. Centering the artist and her mother, as the representatives of two worlds, prison and the outside, the film exposes the shared emotions and memories manifesting themselves in these different worlds. Two women follow a ritual of asking the same question repetitively about the Garden House. As the answers shift with each recollection, the conversations themselves become fragmented, like overlapping memories of the same moment, each one revealing a different version of the past. The act of remembering becomes more than just looking back; it’s a collective way of holding onto the present.
I am a London-based artist filmmaker from Türkiye. Drawing on my experiences as a Kurdish political prisoner for nine and a half years, I am particularly interested in personal stories that are easily lost within the grand narratives. In the filmmaking process, I find myself often captured by the natural flow of the material, allowing it to intuitively lead the work. My experience of the present is always connected to the past, and I strive to make films that use memory as a form of resistance, a way of making space for what remains unspoken and unseen in both personal and political histories.
Instagram: @dagtulin
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