Film stills and exhibition stills from “Rewinding Internationalism” curated by Nick Aikens at Van Abbemuseum.
Director Didem Pekün
Producer Anna Maria Aslanoğlu & ISTOS Film
Co-producer Melek Ulagay
Director of Photography Petros Nousias (GSC)
2nd Unit Director of Photography Barış Aygen (GYD)
Editor Eytan İpeker (BFS, KUDA)
Writers Didem Pekün & Eytan İpeker
Sound Design Taylan Geçit
Music Berke Can Özcan & Elena Kakaliagou
Choreography/Concept Mihran Tomasyan
Created with & Performed by (in alphabetical order)
Beste Demir
Ekin Önce
Leyla Postalcıoğlu
Mihran Tomasyan
Nazlı Durak
Nazlı Tecimer
Ufuk Fakıoğlu
Otherwise in Istanbul
2024 75 Minutes Surround Sound
A creative dance documentary, Otherwise in Istanbul, follows the Istanbulian dancer Mihran Tomasyan, in a narrative told through his Armenian family history and identity, woven with archives, a collectively improvised choreography and the chaos of contemporary Istanbul.
Otherwise in Istanbul looks at life in Istanbul through Mihran’s story; his dance years in France as well as family clips; like his Armenian grandmother who has witnessed the transformation of Turkish Republic, as well as a family dinner with the late Hrant Dink. This is a look at life through affirmation; a universal story of optimism, of communitarianism affirmed through dancing together and living otherwise.