Working Method

I explore what is preserved, transformed, and omitted as media translate and reproduce memory, identity, relationships, and cultural contexts. In the process of being transferred into media, reduction and exaggeration frequently occur. Human perspectives and systems of classification intervene in this process, confining even nonhuman beings within their frameworks of perception.
I copy myself into media as a protagonist and turn events from my life into a series of episodes. How can an individual’s subjectivity overlap with fiction? In the protagonist’s world, only fragments of my reality are interwoven with fiction, while events yet to be revealed exist only in an atomic state within folded layers. The episodes are presented nonchronologically across different (non)physical spaces, producing anachronisms. The “gutters” between the episodes—the empty spaces between comic panels—leave room for viewers to imagine and reconstruct the missing events anew.
This flow, which intermingles nonlinear spaces and times, exposes the reductions and exaggerations performed by media and disrupts the process through which an event comes to be understood within a fixed context.
This working method reveals a cinematic mechanism that has long been operating within me. Formed within a media environment, this mechanism continuously reflects changes in my cognitive system. Therefore, this is neither a project moving toward a single closure nor a story with a fixed ending.