Cinema Project's Spring 2016 Season Begins!

Nazli Dinçel’s 2011 film Leafless may seem on its sensual surface to be an update of Willard Maas’s Geography of the Body (1943), now warmly-colored and somehow both fantastic and familiar, with cuts to real landscapes between the peaks and valleys of a lover’s body. It was also made (hand-processed) by a young woman whose multi-located childhood between Turkey, the US, and Switzerland, is reflected in her other films under the theme of dislocation. It’s clear that Dinçel feels deeply, as though the cuts from an exacto knife, the punches from a sewing machine and typewriter, or the blows from a hammer that the 16mm acetate receives when she is creating these textured films is more than a metaphor for the malleability of the body. This program, curated by Dinçel herself, both reveals and revels in the body, emulsion, and those things we’re not yet used to talking about, like the sexual awakening of girls. Join us in welcoming Nazli Dinçel to Portland for this one-night program.

Nazli will be in attendance for this screening!