S. Buse Yıldırım

S. Buse Yıldırım is a documentary artist, curator, and cultural manager working at the intersection of visual anthropology, memory, and experimental forms of non-fiction storytelling. Her practice explores the porous boundaries of documentary through research-based methodologies, engaging with archives, oral histories, and cultural performance. Drawing on her background in History of Art (Goldsmiths), Documentary Filmmaking (ESEC Paris), and Visual & Media Anthropology (Freie Universität Berlin), she develops films and curatorial frameworks that navigate between observation and interpretation, often focusing on intergenerational memory, social landscapes, and sensory experience.

Alongside her artistic practice, she leads long-term cultural initiatives that investigate the role of memory and place. She is the founder of Kundura Hafıza, an archive and research center, and the Artistic Director of Beykoz Kundura, where she has contributed to the transformation of a former industrial site into a multidisciplinary cultural platform. She is also the initiator of Kundura DocLab, an international platform that brings together film and theatre practices to expand methodologies in non-fiction storytelling through collaborative and process-driven research.