My research moves between cinema, archival practices, experimental media, and the material histories of images. Combining critical inquiry with research-creation, I investigate how moving-image technologies can reconstruct suppressed histories while questioning the conditions through which images are produced, preserved, and circulated.

Mahalle — Spatial Counter-Archive

Doctoral research-creation · York University

An ongoing investigation into the suppressed histories of 1 Mayıs Mahallesi, a neighbourhood established through working-class resistance and collective struggles for housing in Istanbul during the 1970s.

Combining archival fragments, oral histories, environmental traces, analogue filmmaking, and experimental spatial reconstruction, Mahalle explores how moving images might reanimate histories fragmented by political violence and urban transformation.

Immersive Cinema / Dome Studies

Spatial image, projection, and experimental spectatorship

An ongoing exploration of immersive cinema as a space for rethinking the relationship between moving images, architecture, and spectatorship.

Working with analogue film, digital imaging, spatial remapping, and dome projection, these experiments investigate how archival fragments might inhabit environments beyond the conventional cinematic frame.

Developed in connection with Mahalle, this research considers the dome not simply as an expanded screen, but as a spatial and perceptual apparatus.

Material Media / Counter-Archives

Photochemical practice, media ecology, and archival experimentation

Research into the material conditions of moving images, from mineral extraction and photochemical inscription to digital infrastructures and archival preservation.

Through scholarly writing and experimental film practice, this work explores how images carry traces of their technological histories and how material interventions can challenge conventional understandings of documentary evidence and historical memory.