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Deniz Tortum works in film and immersive media. His work has screened internationally, including at the Venice Film Festival, SxSW, IFFR, IDFA, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Hot Docs, True/False and Dokufest. His latest short Our Ark (2021, co-dir Kathryn Hamilton) has premiered at IDFA 2021 and won Best Short Film award at Istanbul Film Festival.
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Turkish director, screenwriter, multimedia artist Deniz Tortum was born in 1989 in Turkey. He was born and raised in Istanbul. After completing his high school education at Robert College, he studied cinema at Bard College in New York State and worked as a research assistant at the MIT Open Documentary Lab.
We are backing up the planet, creating 3D models of animals, rainforests, cities and people. We are archiving as if ecological collapse could be staved off through some digital Noah’s Ark of beasts and objects. International Premiere at IDFA 2021. Imagine Science Film Festival 2021.
Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual. More information: https://www.phasesfilm.com/.
Oct 7, 2016 · Deniz Tortum is a filmmaker, researcher and designer. He is currently a fellow at Harvard Film Study Center, where he is working on a film about a hospital in Istanbul and works with Virtual Collaboration Research, where he designs virtual reality experiences.
Deniz Tortum’s Phases of Matter explores Istanbul’s Cerrahpaşa Hospital, where Tortum’s father has worked for 30 years, and where Tortum himself was born. Viewed in near–final cut form, Matter bears a meaningful relationship to the signature works of Harvard’s Sensory Ethnography Lab (SEL), where Tortum studied.
