I’ve written and directed award-winning short films and documentaries, experimented with visual techniques and new technologies, produced music videos, TV campaigns and commercials. These days, I use my “superpowers” to give voice to differing standpoints in society: I follow and document the stories of communities and initiatives that strive for change, social inclusion and sustainability. I use use storytelling as a tool that ignites exchange, promotes participation and activates communities.
I’m currently active in EU funded projects such as Poseidon (promoting positive energy neighbourhoods in the Mediterranean) and Fair Mobility (focusing on participative mobility planning from a female and gender minority perspective), as well as Erasmus projects such as CHAC (using oral storytelling to discover history from a citizens perspective) and BioYouToon (promoting biodiversity sustainability through comic book creation).
I’ve recently completed my artistic research on the language techniques of authoritarian groups and their coercive methodologies on structuring group thinking patterns as part of my masters thesis at the Fine Arts Academy in Vienna, and am currently occupied researching the economic and social relations of nomadic groups (referred to as Yörüks) in Anatolia.