Can Digital Arts Help You Fall in Love? – Eda Elif

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About this Event

This talk is based on Elif Eda’s first experience with Digital Arts. As a filmmaker, she has always thought the movies she makes or produces should create new “eyes” for the audience rather than telling a story written in stone.

Elif Eda has always wanted the audience, eventually, to replace her/his eyes with the characters’ eyes and start telling the story of another person to themselves as if it is theirs.

Why Should I attend?

“A meeting of two: eye to eye, face to face.

And when you are near I will tear your eyes out

and place them instead of mine,

and you will tear my eyes out

and will place them instead of yours,

then I will look at me with mine.” ― Jacob Levy Moreno

If you have ever been labelled by the society, if you have ever felt stuck in a role that does not feel authentic and if you have been constantly looking ways of expressing yourself, you have to join Eda Elif while she talks about how her VR project “The Thing Between Us”.

Discover how it was born and developed. And, how this project helped her and many other Turkish women wearing a hijab to face their traumas, and find a way out of it. This is a place “beyond right and wrong” and we will meet there.

About Elif Eda

Elif Eda was born in Istanbul. After studying Psychology and Sociology she finished her Cognitive Psychology MA. Meanwhile, she has written and directed radio plays, also she has written children books, and short stories. In 2009 she moved to NY to start filmmaking MFA at Tisch School of Arts. She graduated in 2015 and moved back to Istanbul.

Elif Eda has written a feature-length period drama that was produced in 2017, has written-directed several short films, a web series, and has been giving scriptwriting classes at Istanbul Media Academy.

Her latest short movie, Void, was chosen for several national and international festivals’ competition selections and won the best short movie prize in 7th Bosporus Film Festival and the first runner up prize in STFF.

Filmography

The Thing Between Us, Video Art, 3’ (2020), Writer & Director & Performer

Zor Yıllar, Feature Length Period Drama (2019), Scriptwriter

Void, Short Movie, 15’ (2018), Scriptwriter & Director

Öcüler, Web Series (2015), Scriptwriter & Director & Producer

United Voice, Feature Lenght Documentary (2015), Scriptwriter

Boxed, Short Movie, 12’ (2012), Scriptwriter & Director

Games We Play, Short Documentary, 6’ (2011), Scriptwriter & Director