VIGO FILM

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ILLETLER In Development

A new method of spiritual communication allows contact with the future. Nazım speaks to an entity claiming to be his daughter’s future self, but each séance triggers her seizures, forcing him to choose between curiosity and her safety. Director Deniz Tortum Producers Sinan Kesova, Deniz Tortum Writers Derin Emre, Deniz Tortum FUNDED BY 2025 Turkish Ministry of Culture and Tourism SELECTED PLATFORMS 2024 Istanbul Film Festival | Meetings On the Bridge DIRECTOR'S BIOGRAPHY Born in Istanbul, (1989). Works in film and immersive media. Among his recent work, his feature documentary Phases of Matter (2020, IFFR) explores a state-run teaching hospital in Istanbul; his essay video Our Ark (2021, IDFA, co-dir Sister Sylvester) reflects on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world, a digital Noah’s Ark; and his virtual reality work Shadowtime (2023, Venice Film Festival, co-dir Sister Sylvester) explores the history of virtual reality and its relation to the climate crisis. Between 2014 and 2020, he worked as a researcher at the MIT Open Documentary Lab and MIT Transmedia Storytelling Initiative. In 2019, he was featured as one of the 25 New Faces of Independent Film by Filmmaker Magazine. His work has screened internationally, including at the Venice Film Festival, IFFR, IDFA, SXSW, the Museum of the Moving Image among others. He is currently writing a column on the futures of cinema at the Filmmaker Magazine; leading an archival project with Salt Istanbul about the 60s independent Turkish film scene; and developing Illetler a film around spiritism and climate anxiety.