TURKEY/ AUSTRIA

Despina, 2021. HD video with 2 sound channels, 11 minutes.

Set between dream, reality, and future, the film is about a journey of a young girl who has survived a nuclear catastrophe and its social and environmental impact. The use of different cameras in the film breed varying image qualities in a coded reference to the multiple temporalities that describe the work, causing the narrative to collapse. The moving images are accompanied by a glitchy, melodramatic soundscape, and distorted siren-like cries of the young girl who mours her future. Despina is part of an artistic research project based in Sinop — the site of the historical fortress prison where dozens of thinkers, poets, and writers were imprisoned for the 'crime of thinking' as well as the contested nuclear power plant.