Tiny Little Things (Hande Çayır)
20min – 16:9
Synopsis
A Turkish woman in Brighton shares her visual diary. Witness her ups and downs, her intimacy and vulnerability. After revealing hers, the film invites you to confront your ‘tiny little things’. It presents a slice-of-life experience with an abstract flow and deals with one’s existence in this world. There is no escape from family and the things in your mind, even if you are thousands of miles away. The meaning changes constantly, and the camera becomes the extension of her mind. And somebody put that voice in her brain.
Artist Statement
My artistic practice is abstract, fragile, personal, and political. It’s important to me that serendipitous moments in filmmaking reveal our hidden stories. Form and content go hand in hand. These Tiny Little Things challenge conventions, and maybe they’re not so tiny after all.
I hold a BA in Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design from Sabanci University and an MA in Film and TV from Istanbul Bilgi University, where I obtained a PhD in Communication. I completed my second MA in Journalism and Documentary Practice at the University of Sussex under a fully funded Chevening Scholarship. I am pursuing a practice-based PhD in Warwick’s Film Studies with a Warwick Collaborative Fellowship. My films have been screened at festivals and exhibitions, including but not limited to the Akbank Short Film Festival, Documentarist: Istanbul Documentary Days, Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival, Experimental Forum, and Los Angeles International Short Film Festival. I love singing jazz, being with cats and co-creation.