Between Delicate and Violent

Between Delicate and Violent is an experimental documentary that considers hands as memory places that can both accumulate and transfer memories. Through hands and their creations, it imagines unearthing lost memories that have not been included in performative, socially acceptable family albums. Can we see the violence of the painter's hands in the brush strokes of his paintings? Could cross-stitch be an alphabet of some sort? The video connects with the director's personal past through imagination and creation, while opening up to larger human stories such as domestic violence and intergenerational trauma and resistance.

Şirin Bahar Demirel

 Şirin Bahar Demirel is a filmmaker and visual artist, working with video, documentary film and collage. Adopting an experimental and playful approach, she tells personal stories rooted in social realities. She studied cinema at Galatasaray University in Istanbul. Her first medium-length/feature documentary Women's Country won the Best Documentary Award at the 56th Golden Orange Film Festival.