burak çevik

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NEWS

Turkey’s Burak Cevik wraps filming historic drama ‘Nothing In Its Place’
Screendaily, Sep. 2023



BIOGRAPHY

Burak Cevik (1993, Istanbul) founded Fol Cinema Society and curated experimental and arthouse film screenings. He was lecturer on Non-Fiction between 2018-2020 at Istanbul Bilgi University. His films The Pillar of Salt (2018), Belonging (2019) and Forms of Forgetting (2023) premiered at Berlinale Forum. His video works have screened at various festivals, such as Locarno Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, FID Marseille and New York Film Festival.


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While Cursed By Specters
2020, 10’, without dialogue
Turkey

Burak Çevik’s film reworks the stark black-and-white compositions of Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub’s 1984 film Klassenhältnisse (Class Relations) in which German locations stand in for the imagined country of Kafka’s unfinished novel, Amerika. Here, however, depopulated interiors and desolate outdoor spaces carry the phantasmic traces of humanity – voices, shadows, photographs, cars – but never let them appear, suggesting a world in which all connections to the social have come untethered.


[58th New York Film Festival’s Currents.]