Yaşatmak İstedik / We Wanted to Keep Them Alive

(Video-Yerleştirme / Installation: Sibel Tekin, Onur Metin, Oktay İnce, Alper Şen) 2016 Videolar 2001-2024, Alıntı: Julio Cortazar – Cinayeti Gördüm Hangi anıyı yaşamadan hatırlayabiliriz? Cinayet anını okumak, izlemek, dinlemek o ana ulaşamamanın çaresizliğini de barındırır mı? Yaşamın kendisi metafora dönüşüyor. Ancak yaşamın metaforu ölümü yoksayabilir. Kamerayı elimize alıp sokaklara çıktığımızdan beri tanık olduğumuz katliamların anmalarında kaybettiklerimizin isminin her okunuşunda “yaşıyor!” …

Night Flight - Trailer from Work of Image on Vimeo.

2 Videos 5' - 6' - 2020

Videos by Raziye Kubat & Alper Şen for the exhibition of Raziye Kubat's paintings "Night Flight"

https://www.depoistanbul.net/en/event/raziye-kubat-night-flight/

Gece Uçuşu / Night Flight

 Raziye Kubat (Videos by Alper Şen) – 2021 ‘Herkes, sevmediği ve hatta iğrendiği bir özelliği hayvanlarda gördüğünde hayranlıkla karşılar.’ Biz insanlar, öteki, diğeri, farklı olan üzerinden algıladığımız her şeye yabancılaşmayı, üzerimize alınmamayı, düşünmeye gerek duymaksızın becerebiliyoruz. Binlerce yıldır görme duyumuz kadar çalıştırılan, yönlendirilen başka bir duyumuz yok. Gece uçuşu, keskin gözlü ve gece yaşayan bir baykuş yahut kör bir kartal …

We Want a Job from Work of Image on Vimeo.

We Want a Job from Work of Image on Vimeo.

We Want a Job from Work of Image on Vimeo.

Video - 8' - 2007

Video by Alper Şen

The demonstration was held by LGBTT people in front of the State Job Center to expose and protest discrimination against them because of their identity in Ankara, 2007.

We Want a Job from Work of Image on Vimeo.

We Want a Job from Work of Image on Vimeo.

We Want a Job from Work of Image on Vimeo.

We Want a Job

Video: Alper Şen, 2007 – Ankara The demonstration was held by LGBTT people in front of the State Job Center to expose and protest discrimination against them because of their identity in Ankara, 2007. * Exhibited at “Future Queer: 20 Years of Kaos GL” – 2016

Scavengers from Hakkari to Ankara from Work of Image on Vimeo.

Scavengers from Hakkari to Ankara from Work of Image on Vimeo.

Scavengers from Hakkari to Ankara from Work of Image on Vimeo.

Scavengers from Hakkari to Ankara

Yönetmen / Directed by: Alper Şen, Oktay İnce, 11′, 14′ – 2009, 2001/06 – Ankara Hundreds of people, who have been forced to migrate from their village Kotranis in Hakkari-Turkey at 1994, are still picking recycling materials at the garbage sites and in the center of Ankara, capital city of Turkey, send them to the recycling market. When we started …

Memory from Work of Image on Vimeo.

Memory from Work of Image on Vimeo.

Memory

Found Footage, 2005 – Ankara On the night of 12 March 1995, you sit on your couch and started to watch “A Film About Love”. Then reality cuts the fiction. * 14th Istanbul Biennial – 2015

The Elevator

Directors: Alper Şen, Hülya Gönültaş, 2003 – Ankara An annoying man gets on the elevator just after Hülya. Suddenly the elevator stops and fiction starts. * Ankara International Film Festival – 2004

Obsessive

Video: Alper Şen, Emre Şakar, Gözde Ergin, 2001 – Ankara How a person walks in without stepping the lines of pavements?