M. MELIS BILGIN
MULTI-DISCIPLINARY STORYTELLER
PERFORMED & ANIMATED
STORIES
“You’re a theatre director?
Then, you can do anything.”
That’s what my interviewer said right before I landed my first job in NYC. He was right. Performance is an interdisciplinary field of interwoven elements that need to be co-created and managed simultaneously. The paths weaving in and out of theatre, performance, filmmaking and animation are paved with similar stones. Moving images in time or moving live images in space share DNA. Composing two-dimensional visual images and staging in space are akin. When animation is my sandbox, creating characters for the theater merges with film grammar and visual storytelling. I write screenplays, doctor scripts, create video-performances, direct short films, make stop-motion and hand-drawn animations, analyze, write, and lecture on all of these. At times I am creator, at times collaborator and at times consultant. If you are process-oriented, no field is that far off.
ANIMATIONS
VIDEO PERFORMANCES
SHORT FILMS
STAGED
A current day Istanbul take on Ingres's famous painting, "Odalisque" explores the dynamics of seeing and being seen. A young schoolboy, left at his grandmother's boring apartment, enters a new world he discovers through the open curtains of the painting studio across.
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