BEN / O
23 mins
Esmeray : artist, transsexual, Kurd, feminist, currently lives in Turkey. First, we filmed her as she walked the streets of Istanbul at night – her territory. Then, we asked her, for a short while, to slip back into the skin, or at least the costume, of the man she stopped being 20 years ago. In this guise, she followed the same routes. The two pictures are shown simultaneously. The film becomes like an experiment in self-shadowing. Split screen as an exploration of split personality ?
Simon Backès
Editor
Piet Eekman
Camera Operator
Güldem Durmaz
Director
Güldem Durmaz
Producer
Candeniz Erün
Assistant Director
Gilles Bénardeau
Sound Mixer
Güldem Durmaz
Writer