Between Delicate and Violent
TITLE
Between Delicate and Violent
DIRECTOR
Şirin Bahar Demirel
COUNTRY
Turkey, Netherlands
YEAR
2023
DURATION
15′
GENRE
Documentary short
Between Delicate and Violent
Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet? 'Between Delicate and Violent' imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Şirin Bahar Demirel
Şirin Bahar Demirel is a filmmaker and visual artist, working with moving image, collage, and photography. Her works explore home, mis/displacement, and workings of memory in its broadest sense, through their relationships with objects and places, highlighting the underlying gender roles. She tells personal stories rooted in social realities with a playful approach, and experiments with the dialogue between archival&found images and her own creations. Demirel studied cinema at Galatasaray University in Istanbul and Artistic Direction of Cultural Projects at Paul Valéry University in France. Film festivals and group exhibitions that she participated in include IDFA, Kassel Dokfest, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Sharjah Film Platform, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art screenings.
- DirectorŞirin Bahar Demirel
- Screenplay Şirin Bahar Demirel
- Cinematography Şirin Bahar Demirel
- Cast
- Editing Şirin Bahar Demirel
- Producer/s Şirin Bahar Demirel
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleBetween Delicate and Violent
- Project TypeDocumentary short
- Completion Date 1 November 2023
- Country of originTurkey, Netherlands
- Country of filmingTurkey, Netherlands
- LanguageTurkish
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Şirin Bahar Demirel
Şirin Bahar Demirel is a filmmaker and visual artist, working with moving image, collage, and photography. Her works explore home, mis/displacement, and workings of memory in its broadest sense, through their relationships with objects and places, highlighting the underlying gender roles. She tells personal stories rooted in social realities with a playful approach, and experiments with the dialogue between archival&found images and her own creations. Demirel studied cinema at Galatasaray University in Istanbul and Artistic Direction of Cultural Projects at Paul Valéry University in France. Film festivals and group exhibitions that she participated in include IDFA, Kassel Dokfest, Ars Electronica, Transmediale, Sharjah Film Platform, and Istanbul Museum of Modern Art screenings.
