Essays # 2
| Friday | Salt Beyoğlu | 15:00 |
Chasing the Sun: El Shatt
Ana Bilankov
19' 30'' | 2024 | Digital
Croatia, Egypt
The film touches on some historical facts about the largest refugee camp El Shatt in the Sinai desert in Egypt during the WWII, based on materials from Croatian and international archives and intertwined with the visuals of this desert non-place now. An attempt to reconstruct a fragmented memory of unknown history about migration in the Mediterranean as a transtemporal filmic journey.
POV Memory
Igor Smola
13’ 45' | 2023 | 16 mm, digita
Azerbaijan
Through the lens of evolving recording devices, from 16mm film reels and VHS tapes to modern gadgets, CCTV cameras, and military thermal imaging, we follow an army man. He locks his trophies in a jewelry box as a keepsake, cherishes a family photo, and films recruits at boot camp. Yet, he's captured on CCTV committing a crime — a deed forever etched in a computer's memory.
A RECONNAISSANCE
Stefan Kruse
Stefan Kruse
28' | 2025 |
Germany
Information is scarce around the Heron 1, a long range military drone patrolling the Mediterranean Sea and surveilling the borders of Europe. Starting from desktop research into the drone, this investigation about the present and future of surveillance technology drops us at the crossroads of Frontex, the military industrial complex and a plane spotter community.
