De Humani Corporis Fabrica deals with the body, which is the most immanent structure in human beings, with unprecedented clarity and purity. True to the autonomy of the body and its parts, it promises an uncanny mapping of the flesh and an almost perverse journey to rethinking each corner of the body. The documentary tries to add a new perspective with the help of moving images to the history of thinking, which is stuck between mind and body dichotomy throughout…
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Mysterious Object at Noon 2000
Mysterious Object at Noon contemplates on the concept of storytelling itself and finds its roots in the tradition of oral narrative, and vivifies its branches with the Surrealist movement's participatory composition technique, Exquisite Corpse. These elements liberate this speech-oriented documentary from the conventional boundaries of ‘talking heads’. This liberation begins with the narrative at the very beginning of the film, where the director asks, ‘Do you have any other stories to tell us, it can be real or fiction.’ Then…
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Manakamana 2013
The Manakamana temple is not the representation of the goddess, but the goddess herself, and the documentary also presents an indirect depiction of a practice performed in many temples in Nepal. The animal sacrifice ritual lurks behind the scenes of the goddess' granting of wishes. With the act of transportation process, the travelers' bodies and their performativity become the representation area of the network of agencies. With the bodies, which are the main attraction of the documentary, the documentary becomes…
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