Overview
Süperkesik was developed as an artistic-academic research project using montage as a method of inquiry. Instead of treating editing as a finishing stage, the project approaches montage as a research instrument—a way to map how images, performance spaces, and sound cues form legibility, desire, and social codes in cinema.
Süperkesik was developed as an artistic-academic research project using montage as a method of inquiry. Instead of treating editing as a finishing stage, the project approaches montage as a research instrument—a way to map how images, performance spaces, and sound cues form legibility, desire, and social codes in cinema.
Research axis
The research was positioned at the intersection of the cinema of Turkey, spectatorship studies, and psychoanalytic approaches to viewing—focusing on performance environments (e.g., nightlife, stages, mediated intimacy) as places where identity is negotiated through rhythm, framing, and sonic cues.
The research was positioned at the intersection of the cinema of Turkey, spectatorship studies, and psychoanalytic approaches to viewing—focusing on performance environments (e.g., nightlife, stages, mediated intimacy) as places where identity is negotiated through rhythm, framing, and sonic cues.
Outcomes
• Short gallery film constructed as a collage-narrative through selected clips, organized by thematic and rhythmic “chapters.”
• Research paper: “Queer, Turkish Cinema and Film Music: Nightclubs, Performance Stages and the Other”*
• Research notes and references produced under SALT’s research context.
SALT is a research-focused cultural institution based in Karaköy, İstanbul, with an emphasis on urban modernity and Istanbul studies. The project’s support enabled a focused period of applied research and a finished moving-image outcome designed for exhibition contexts.
