6th International Student Triennial June 6, 2013

The annual meeting of the 6th International Student Triennial, hosted by the Marmara University’s Faculty of Fine Arts, takes place on June 3-7, 2013. This year’s theme Triennial is “Connecting the Dots”, and short film screenings will be hosted by Istanbul Modern Cinema on June 6. Nineteen short films from six institutions are selected for the screenings. Contributing institutions are Burg Giebichenstein University of Germany, Sarajevo University of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Torino Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Italy, The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design of Poland, Okan University Fine Arts Faculty, and Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts of Turkey.

Burg Giebichenstein University of Germany
Ping Pong, 2011
Germany | DVD, Renkli, 2’40” | No-Dialogue
Director: Claus Störmer
In his work "Ping Pong" Störmer Claus plays with the boundaries of stasis and movement, fact and fiction, the world and our conception of it.

Versus 1: Postures and Metamorphoses
(Versus 1: Haltungen und Metamorphosen), 2011
Germany | DVD, Renkli, 11”15’ | No-Dialogue
Director: Sonja Schrader
"Versus 1: Haltung und Metamorphose", depicts a choreographed process of dressing based on the interactions of two women. The relationship between the women is determined by their actions.

Spring Fever (Frühlingsgefühle), 2013
Germany | DVD, Renkli, 12”45’ | No-Dialogue
Director: Murat Haschu
A subtly ironic film drawn largely in ink, in which a cannibalistic menu with several courses is acted out.

Martha, 2013
Germany | DVD, Renkli, 3“28‘ | German
Director: Tim Novitzki
A young woman is talking about events some of which she has experienced and others that she wants to try.

Debut, 2013
Germany | DVD, Renkli, 3“28‘ | German
Director: Anne Oertel
Staying in a defined setting / Being part of a structure like a pixel on a screen / Like a bit of gravel on the ground / Acting next to indiscernible equals. / Being a visible thought on a nuclear spin tomography image / live-love driven / heading autonomously / moving contra-rotating.

Sarajevo University of Bosnia and Herzegovina
Art Must Be Beautiful, 2013
Bosnia Herzegovina | DVD, Renkli, 2’ | English
Director: Damir Prljaca
This experimental short is a comment onthe society that constantly forces artists to create "lovely and pretty" art. It rebels against this mediocre view and questions the concept of beauty.

85 Seconds, 2012
Bosnia Herzegovina | DVD, Renkli, 1’40” | Bosnian
Director: Ada Sokolovic
A short film based on thedirector’s actual experiences during the siege of Sarajevo in 1993. The film is a minimalist approach to storytelling about moments that change one's life.

Torino Albertina Academy of Fine Arts of Italy
Morpheus, 2013
Italy | DVD, Renkli, 22’ | No Dialogue
Directors: Claudia Amorini, Davide Reteuna
Morpheus. He is timeless, spaceless. What characterizes him is his talent to bring dreams and illusions to your sleep. Illusions, optical creation and dreams are the keys of Morpheus, he offers himself every night to the dreamers to take the opportunity for living numerous lives.

Paradox, 2011
Italy | DVD, Renkli, 6’ | Italian
Director: Stefano Ferron
Good and evil, consciousness and unconsciousness, cause and effect, the errors and uncertainties: these are the elements that characterize an engrossing dialogue between two women and their corresponding devils.

Orfeo, 2013
Italy | DVD, Renkli, 6’13” | Italian
Director: Magdalena Półrolniczak
A modern interpretation of the Greek myth "Orpheus and Eurydice”.

The Eugeniusz Geppert Academy of Art and Design of Poland
Machine, 2012
Poland | DVD, Renkli, 4’1” | Polish
Director: Justyna Podzorny
The world presented in this animation is a city of a developed civilization. Machine shows the mental aspect of human life and how they feel in the technologically developed world.

Wired Life - Human As a Product Of Technology, 2012
Poland | DVD, Renkli, 3’53” | Polish
Director: Justyna Podzorny
Until the computer era, technology has given people a new reality throughout the industrial evolution. The installation shows how the media plays a role in our evolution through the use of the Internet, television, radio andtelephone. The installation also portrays how people can become independent of technology.

Device of Politics, 2012
Poland | DVD, Renkli, 2’16” | Polish
Director: Justyna Podzorny
This interactive installation is a comment to the interpretation of politics by society.

Anathema, 2012
Poland | DVD, Renkli, 2’03” | Polish
Director: Justyna Podzorny
Anathema presents a symbolic reality of anti-utopia. Set in a city in a developed civilization where the degradation of society is obvious, the animation shows the mental aspect of human life in a technologically developed world.

Machina Sapiens, 2011
Poland | DVD, Renkli, 4’36” | Polish
Director: Justyna Podzorny
The short film shows the birth of a symbolic person in the form of light, in dark, unknown space. The person gets to know her own body and analyses the surroundings by means of her senses like touch and sight.

Marmara University Faculty of Fine Arts of Turkey
​​​​​​​Secret Session (Gizli Oturum), 2012
Türkiye | DVD, Renkli, 20’25” | Turkish
Director: Merve Hürriyet
Three people, who do not know each other, brought into a room in sequence. They do not know why they are there. They are all hiding something and force each other to admit the truth. There is nowhere for them to hide.

Giving Birth to Tahsin (Tahsin’i Doğurmak), 2012
​​​​​​​Türkiye | DVD, Renkli, 20’ | Turkish
Director: Serkan Baydemir
The beginning of a painful period. Tahsin is a librarian, drowned in his obsessive state, thus, he is a husband who is abandoned for his obsessions.

I Want To Live (Yaşamak İstiyorum), 2012
​​​​​​​Türkiye | DVD, Renkli, 19’ | Turkish
Director: Zeliha Orman​​​​​​
A woman is about to die and a man devotedly looks after her. Life gains new meaning each day.

Okan University Faculty of Fine Arts
Chora (Kariye), 2012
​​​​​​​Türkiye | DVD, Renkli, 11’10” | Turkish
Director: Töre Ercan
A documentary about the mosaics of Chora Church, which is one of the most magnificent buildings of the Eastern Roman Empire. Each mosaic of the Chora Church has its own story.