Fatma Belkis

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Fatma Belkıs was born in Antalya in 1985. She now lives in İstanbul.

She works with text, video, and printed matter either individually or collectively with friends. Even though as an artist, she is strictly interested in people going through some kind of a transformation, specifically with the ones who do not go through this alone, in her personal life she prefers to live with cats instead of people.

She studied Visual Arts and Communication Design in İstanbul some time ago. Her works were shown in İstanbul and Sharjah Biennials and in institutions such as İstanbul Modern, DEPO, nGbK, Tensta Konsthall. The films she has directed were shown at international film festivals in Turkey and Europe.

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The Friend Constant Beyond Death
The Friend Constant Beyond Death

Grief work, initially defined by Freud, is redescribed by Derrida as a ‘work of mourning’ that requires an internal idealization of the voice and the body of the lost other, “ideally and quasi-literally devouring them”. A film by Fatma Belkis.

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Q&A with Fatma Belkis

“I went through the footage, took notes, and filmed the new footage, which is a commentary. Emotionally, it was complicated. It took some time for me to be able to watch to footage, and took a little more to sit and talk about it. It took a few years.”

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