Tuğçe Madayanti Şen
Film writer, academic and archaeologist. Since 2013 she has written a weekly film column for the newspaper BirGün, and she prepares and presents the programme İyi Seyirler. She is a member of the Academic Board at Yeditepe University, where she teaches “Film Criticism”, and she also teaches Turkish cinema to international students at Halbuki Linguist Cooperative. Şen’s short film, shot in Esperanto, has been screened at international festivals. By founding HAYTAP-Sanat, the arts unit of HAYTAP (Türkiye’s Animal Rights Federation), she initiated animal rights monitoring in television series and film productions in Türkiye, and she continues to work on cinema, cultural policy and ethics.
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Digital nomads on the “Geographic Resonance Line”: is it really where we live that we are running from?
Perhaps the invisible line stretching from Bali to Koh Phangan, from Goa to Tulum, should be called the “Geographic Resonance Line”. It is a network of circulation where people try to find the rhythm they have lost. But after a while you notice something else: people do not find resonance, they simply carry it from one country to the next. That is why the Geographic Resonance Line is less a map of solutions than a map of symptoms.
From Romain Gavras’s ‘Athena’ to ‘La Commune’: the anger is there, so why no revolution?
Instadocs: an age that breeds its own monsters, filmed as it happens
As justice, reality and security are shaken, artificial intelligence brings a new perpetrator onto the stage. Netflix’s “Instadocs” series tells the story of a humanity forced to face the systems it has created.
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