Berlin Hive Film Days

I presented my video-performance Progressive at Berlin Hive Film Days in september 2025.

This performance brings together videos, spoken texts, a lecture and an installation. The videos reimagine homoeroticism by valorizing the everyday man. The texts reflect on how singleness is lived in our societies and unsettle the hierarchy between romantic partners and friends. The lecture unpacks the research behind the works and considers the potential of queer activism within video art. The installation explores how gay sexuality enables men from across different professions and social classes to come together.

Taking Cruising video a departure point and slipping past authority through irony, the performance questions the idea that Europe’s “better life” and “freer art” should define queer existence in Turkey.