Cruising

Outdoor gay sex culture is traditionally preserved in an anonymous park in İstanbul. A low-resolution night, a camera dancing the choreography of cruising, the formal voice-over of a horny narrator, and bodies that imprint their absence. It is an ethnography of macho lust in the dark, spanning from the local to the European.

Video, 2024, 6'

Text, video and editing

Nadir Sönmez

Music

Mert Kocadayı

It is produced for the video series project of the Altyazı Cinema Association within the scope of Haklara Destek program funded by the European Union. It is part of the film "Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)censorship".

Selected Screenings of Seen Unseen

New York, MoMA Doc Fortnight, 2025

Rotterdam, IFFR, 2025

Copenhagen, CPH:DOX, 2025

Selected Screenings of Cruising

Portugal, Festival Politica, 2025

Utrecht, BAK Queer Film Program, 2025