In an era defined by the rapid advancement of digital technologies, this film captures the daily lives of artists, retailers and repairers who intimately engage with obsolete or discarded technologies. This experimental ethnographic film creatively explores audiovisual cultural research methods, portraying analogue film communities in Berlin and Vienna and mechanical repair shops in Istanbul.
Işıl Karataş
Işıl Karataş is a filmmaker and multimedia artist who experiments with various forms, formats and audiovisual languages. She studied Film and Media Studies in Istanbul, Paris, Lyon, Utrecht and Weimar. She is currently a PhD candidate in Vienna and explores the sensory, cultural, ecological and aesthetic meanings of analogue filmmaking in a digital age. Her films, live visual performances and experimental ethnographic audiovisual works have been presented at various film, music and interdisciplinary festivals and media and anthropology conferences from Taipei to Belfast, Gmünd to Oslo.