at night, on fautlines

2023 20.43 Minutes 5 screen video installation

A film installation by Didem Pekün

Co-produced by Anna Maria Aslanoğlu + Didem Pekün
Cinematographer Petros Nousias
2nd Unit DoP Barış Aygen
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

​Co-commissioned by Das Berliner Programm Künstlerische Forschung + Between Bridges + École du Soir

At night, on faultlines is a five-screen dance film installation; it is a performative work that focuses on the question of “home” in Istanbul, and beyond.

The many lives that live, endure, persevere and fail in the cities we inhabit — cities that sits on fault lines, both geographically as well as metaphorically with the weight of the past, as well as the ongoing political, social, economical, and ecological strifes.

While several screens make a montage of dancers in different rooms of the “home”, other screens reveal Istanbul and its many facets; the sea, the sky, extreme crowd, traffic jam, nighttime — movement. And what cuts through the traffic, the suffocating crowd, the incessant noise, is the dance that perseveres in several screens for dance allows us to keep moving, and being in movement is being alive.


Editioned prints are available from this work. Please email studio@didempekun.com for a full list. Examples of prints below: