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National Documentary Competition

A NAME AND A PLACE
BİR İSİM VE BİR YER

• Director: Can Eskinazi
• TÜRKİYE / 2024 / DCP / Colour / 58’ / English, Turkish, German; Turkish, English s.t.

• Director of Photography: Can Eskinazi, Selin Bonfil
• Editing: Can Eskinazi, Mert Kaya
• Music: Janiv Oron
• Producer: Tankut Aykut, Doğa Öktem
• Production Co.: Öktem Aykut
• World Sales: Öktem Aykut

One of Switzerland’s most prominent contemporary artists, Renée Levi has opened two exhibitions and made a public art installation in September 2022, in Istanbul. Levi was born in Istanbul in 1960 and moved to Switzerland when she was 6. To her, this city has come to mean her childhood and the homeland of her parents. Especially in the last decade Levi proved prolific with her institutional exhibitions in France, Germany and Italy, and she was particularly praised for her exceptional public art projects in Switzerland. All throughout her oeuvre, Levi has come to emphasise her city of birth and her Sephardic heritage. One of the rare leading woman figures in abstract expressionism, she is also known for her way of naming each and every one of her works after a woman’s name.

A Name and A Place closely follows the artist in the two week’s time she has spent in Istanbul and juxtaposes moments of exhibition setups, openings, wanderings in Istanbul, family history and artistic collaborations with Levi’s partner Marcel Schmid and musician Janiv Oron. This intense act of witnessing converges to a network of themes like femininity, migration, İstanbul, Sephardic past, international art collaborations and artistic labour.

This film was a Meetings on the Bridge participant.