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Video, single channel, color, 56:32’’
2020
Produced for Youtube as part of Ortak Kanal, an initiative by four independent radios based in İstanbul to bring together their communities in times of isolation during the Covid pandemic, the video brings together an upbeat mixtape and material from between the years 2014-2020 as an homage to naive fun and camaraderie. Spanning six years and two continents, the video feels cheap&quick, in parts edited haphazardly, and in other moments delicate. Following friends walking around with a basketball, going in and out of DIY spaces, concerts, and liquor stores, the hour-long video is concerned with quantity over quality, documenting the joy of gathering.
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