Hazal Bayar

An expanding wound from beyond. A scientist questioning reality itself. A woman becoming the site of something older than time.

The 21st-Century Cinema Index, an extensive research project on 21st-century film by Hasan Cem Çal, a writer whose work focuses on the evolution of the moving image, has been adapted into a video essay by Hazal Bayar, an academic known for her experimental short films. Written originally for Manifold, one of Turkey’s leading online platforms, the work serves as a unique gallery of foundational images and concepts of the past twenty-five years of cinema.

During the quarantine process, we watch the monogs performed by a woman alone at home. When these monogs are combined with her inner voice, she gets lost in both sounds and images. Audio and image segments that occur between only a few seconds long sentences.

An experimental take on a nervous breakdown through a woman's unconscious.

An expanding wound from beyond. A scientist questioning reality itself. A woman becoming the site of something older than time.

An expanding wound from beyond. A scientist questioning reality itself. A woman becoming the site of something older than time.

An expanding wound from beyond. A scientist questioning reality itself. A woman becoming the site of something older than time.

The 21st-Century Cinema Index, an extensive research project on 21st-century film by Hasan Cem Çal, a writer whose work focuses on the evolution of the moving image, has been adapted into a video essay by Hazal Bayar, an academic known for her experimental short films. Written originally for Manifold, one of Turkey’s leading online platforms, the work serves as a unique gallery of foundational images and concepts of the past twenty-five years of cinema.

During the quarantine process, we watch the monogs performed by a woman alone at home. When these monogs are combined with her inner voice, she gets lost in both sounds and images. Audio and image segments that occur between only a few seconds long sentences.

An experimental take on a nervous breakdown through a woman's unconscious.

An experimental take on a nervous breakdown through a woman's unconscious.

An experimental take on a nervous breakdown through a woman's unconscious.