ALI KAZMA FILM SELECTION and CONVERSATION

This selection offers a sharp perspective on human labour, bodily rhythms, and the invisible mechanisms of the modern world through a series of short films produced by Ali Kazma over the past 15 years. Kazma’s camera observes the ways humans produce, endure, and assert their existence across a wide range of environments – from printing houses to flour mills, from prisons to mines. The films create their own micro-universes, at times by concentrating on a single gesture, at other times by circling around a process or a space. They invite the viewer to engage both with the material details of reality and with the collective field of thought that these details suggest. Comprising 12 films, the selection reveals Kazma’s approach, which transforms documentary from a narrative form into a thinking practice, uniting the everyday and the exceptional along the same aesthetic plane.

Screening: 16.30
Conversation: 19.00
For the screening of the films, visitors can collect their tickets at the museum desk on the day of the screening. Tickets are free for residents of Türkiye.

Film List (Duration: 82’)

Film, 2013
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video 7’
Courtesy of the artist and Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts

Finis Terrae, 2019
Ali Kazma, 1971
Two channel synchronized HD video, 5’
Courtesy of the artist and Galeri Nev İstanbul

Clerk, 2011
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 3’30”
Courtesy of the artist and Vehbi Koç Foundation

Cuisine, 2010
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 10’
Courtesy of the artist and Bibracte Museum
Prison (Resistance Series), 2013

Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 5’
Courtesy of the artist and Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts

Press, 2019
Ali Kazma, 1971
Two channel synchronized HD video, 7’
Courtesy of the artist and Analix Forever

Mine, 2017
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 4’
Courtesy of the artist and Jeu de Paume

Play, 2014
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 8’
Courtesy of the artist and Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts

Top Fuel, 2020
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 16’
Courtesy of the artist

Safe (Resistance Series), 2015
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 3’
Courtesy of the artist

Flour Mill, 2022
Ali Kazma, 1971
Synchronized Diptych HD video with sound, 8’
Courtesy of the artist and Qatar Museums

Inkman, 2025
Ali Kazma, 1971
Single channel HD video, 5’
Courtesy of the artist and Bozlu Art Project

Image:
Ali Kazma, 1971
Cuisine, 2010 (detail)
Single channel HD video, 10’
Courtesy of the artist and Bibracte Museum