Phases of Matter.
Phases of Matter.
- 1 online resource (streaming video file) (70 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Emre Erbabacan, Meltem Pekpak, Metin Ertem, Selen Soylu, Sina Ferahman
Originally produced by Acephale in 2020.
PHASES OF MATTER is set in Istanbul’s venerable Cerrahpasa Hospital, a unique, state-run teaching hospital in Turkey, where the filmmaker himself was born and where his father has long worked as a doctor. It is a human, curious look at a place where life and death, levity and severity, poetry and confrontation go side by side. This immersive documentary passes through the hospital’s darkened corridors from the physical spaces of morgue, operating and observation rooms to the virtual spaces of vital-signs monitors and X-ray machines. With a formal sense of camera movement that simultaneously embraces the unplanned and unexpected, Tortum crafts a vision pitched between the eerily posthuman and the urgently humanist.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English
12185485 Kanopy
Medicine.
Health.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.
Title from title frames. Film In Process Record.
Emre Erbabacan, Meltem Pekpak, Metin Ertem, Selen Soylu, Sina Ferahman
Originally produced by Acephale in 2020.
PHASES OF MATTER is set in Istanbul’s venerable Cerrahpasa Hospital, a unique, state-run teaching hospital in Turkey, where the filmmaker himself was born and where his father has long worked as a doctor. It is a human, curious look at a place where life and death, levity and severity, poetry and confrontation go side by side. This immersive documentary passes through the hospital’s darkened corridors from the physical spaces of morgue, operating and observation rooms to the virtual spaces of vital-signs monitors and X-ray machines. With a formal sense of camera movement that simultaneously embraces the unplanned and unexpected, Tortum crafts a vision pitched between the eerily posthuman and the urgently humanist.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
In English
12185485 Kanopy
Medicine.
Health.
Documentary films.
Documentary films.