Yoel Meranda
An abstract, impish spot of light leads the camera onto Istanbul's streets.
Experimental & Avant-garde, Short Film, Arts, Architecture & Design
This whiplash montage of Istanbul's urban imagery conveys a pure sense of speed and disorientation.
A painterly composition explores movement and sound in the abstract as skaters on a winter ice rink swirl round and round.
This striking short film focuses on the boys and young men who jump into the Bosphorus's to escape the city and the heat.
In this meditative and monumental examination of the legacy of Turkey’s 1980 military coup, individual narrations of the tumultuous event are juxtaposed with quotidian routines, thirty years on.
Yoel Meranda completely transforms brief footage of a ferry trip across the Bosphorus.
A politician's televised speech is utterly transformed into stunning abstraction.
This short is a visual compedium of experimental techniques, all uncannily mined from footage of the filmmaker's piano keys.
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YoelMeranda returned to his hometown of Istanbulafter spending several years in Chicago and New York. His abstractexperimental film practice is influenced by a wide-ranging love of cinema.