Directed by Zehra Yiğit & Perihan Taş Öz
A chance encounter on a friend’s social media account led Zehra Yiğit to the Hungarian National Digital Archives, where she discovered hundreds of photographs taken by the Hungarian traveller/photographer Zsigmond Fejes during his 1914 journey through Cilicia. Inspired by Fejes, Yiğit invited her friend, Perihan Taş Öz, to accompany her as she followed in Fejes’s footsteps in attempt to rediscover a forgotten history. The result is a documentary film that invites the viewer to participate in Yiğit’s journey of personal memories as well as a collective journey of memory in pursuit of archaeological and cultural heritage.
After receiving her Ph.D. from Dokuz Eylül University, Institute of Fine Arts’ Department of Film Design, Zehra Yiğit conducted post-doctoral research at Oxford University. She currently teaches at the Akdeniz University Faculty of Fine Art’s Department of Cinema and Television. Yiğit’s academic work focuses on migration, women and space in cinema. She is also a frequent contributor to film magazines such as Ötekisinema, Psikesinema and Sekans.
Co-director Perihan Taş Öz completed her undergraduate, graduate and doctoral studies at Marmara University in the field of Cinema-TV. Her academic work focuses on film narratives, gender and identity. She is currently the Head of the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema at Istanbul Kültür University. She continues to be involved in film production and screenwriting.
