Belmin Söylemez

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About the artist

Born in Istanbul. She worked as copy writer, editor, director and producer. She made music videos and promotion films.

Her short films and documentaries got many awards in national and international festivals, and were shown on TV Channels such as ARTE,  SVT (Sweden), YLE (Finland) SBS (Australia). Her films have also participated in exhibitions such as “Call me Istanbul”, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2004) and `Free Kick`- the 9th Istanbul Biennial, 2005.

She is also member of Filmist Collective.

Films,

Nothing New on The Front 1994 documentary
State of Sleep 1999 experimental
The Moustache 2000 documentary
ZAP! 2000 experimental
Waves 2001 short film       
Windows 2002 short video (for Oda Projesi)
The Picture of My Life 2003 video documentary  (a project with photographer Orhan Cem Çetin and Oda Projesi “Oda meetings” 8.Ist.Biennial)
34 Taxi documentary 2005 
How Beautiful is Istanbul Today (a.k.a Poster People) 2005
- short video together with Haşmet Topaloğlu
What a Beautiful Democracy! (co-director) 2008 feature documentary

Photography

`Chinese Opera Backstage` – Solo Exhibition Istanbul, Ankara
`A Short Film Never Shot` - Solo Exhibition, Istanbul

Participant of the project `For Women by Women` (www.kadinlaricin.org women photographers against domestic violence, fundraising for women's support organizations) 

belmin@filmist.org