Işıl Karataş is a Praedoc at the Institute for European Ethnology at the University of Vienna and a (multi)media-maker who experiments with different forms and formats of sound and image-making. Her films, soundworks, and live visual performances have been performed at various music and film festivals and anthropological conferences. She has a joint degree from the tri-national master’s program in European Film and Media Studies between the Université Lumière Lyon 2/ENS Lyon, the University of Utrecht, and the Bauhaus University Weimar. Her PhD project is an ethnography of the phenomenon of analogue filmmaking in the digital era in Berlin, Vienna, and Istanbul to understand the complex affective, sensory, and ecological relationship between human and nonhuman actors in a rapidly changing media environment..
In an era defined by the rapid advancement of digital technologies, this film captures the daily lives of artists, retailers, and repairers who intimately engage with obsolete or discarded technologies.
This experimental ethnographic film creatively explores audiovisual cultural research methods, portraying analogue film communities in Berlin and Vienna, as well as mechanical repair shops in Istanbul.