Super 8mm (transferred 4K) 10 mins 2024
Non/living is an exploration that delves into the collaboration between living organisms; Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker’s yeasts) and non-living; a ghost archaeologist. The film tries to find an approach between human and nonhuman beings while investigating ecological filmmaking and materialist films. The filmmaker held several experiments to find the best recipe to produce a movie with microorganisms, focusing on the intersection of art and science, including process-based experimentation and surface-based or cameraless filmmaking. During the screening, the silent film is open to human and nonhuman sound interventions.
Müge Yıldız is an artist-filmmaker and researcher at Aalto University. She has a BA in Cinema from Galatasaray University, further expanded her cinema education as an Erasmus exchange student at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle, and completed her MA in Visual Cultures, Curating, and Contemporary Art at Aalto University on a Finland Scholarship. Her work blends experimental filmmaking with hybrid techniques while emphasizing sustainable practices. Her work has been showcased at major international film festivals, including the BFI London Film Festival and Images Festival in Toronto. She also participated in the Oberhausen Film Seminar and Istanbul Biennial Production and Research Program.
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