A Virtual Reality Experience: September 1955 | Deniz Tortum
Channel: Hakikat Adalet Hafıza Merkezi
Date: 11/02/2019

Deniz Tortum gave this talk within the scope of Hafıza Merkezi's panel "Visualization, New Technologies and Collective Memory: Virtual Reality". Find more details on the panel here: https://hakikatadalethafiza.org/panel-serimiz-basliyor-gorsellik-yeni-teknolojiler-ve-hafiza/

Deniz Tortum works in film and new media. He is a graduate of MIT Comparative Media Studies and has worked as a research assistant at the Open Documentary Lab. His movies has been shown and awarded in various festivals like SxSW, True/False, Sheffield, Dokufest, !F İstanbul. Deniz is one of the creators of the visual reality project inspired from Martam Şahinyan and Osep Minasoğlu’s photography archives “September 1955,” telling the story of 6-7 September pogrom by placing the viewer in a reconstructed photography studio in the midst of the pogrom. Other new media projects he has developed showed in Venice Film Festival and Istanbul Sharjah Biennale. Deniz was invited to Film Studies Center at Harvard University with his documentary project on Cerrahpaşa Hospital. He still continues to work on that project.