Ezgi Bayram

Abandoned (2017)
Film (short) by Ezgi Bayram (Short) Director, Cinematographer, Editor Abondaned is an experimental film which creates an audiovisual potrait of the southern English coastline. The film tries to capture the emptiness of the landscape through the use of poetic voiceover, sounds of past activities and shots of various locations including Dungeness, Reculver Fort and Whistable.

Leftovers (2017)
by Ezgi Bayram (Drama and Short) Director, Cinematographer, Editor Leftovers is a short experimental fiction film which looks at a woman artist who lives in the country but also has lost something in the city. She is alone but is still searching and creating. The film tries to capture the emotional state of a middle-aged artist who is on the edge in terms of youth and age, city and country, depressed and happy. The film also has a documentary feel but the character is fiction and the film builds up a picture of who she is through her journey and art.

Absurdities (2017)
Film (short) by Ezgi Bayram Director, Cinematographer, Editor Absurdities is a multimedia installation piece which shows several scenes of an Asian woman on a deserted beach (Dungeness) searching for something, finding a plant and eating it at a table in front of a wrecked boat. The film tries to challenge and disturb viewers with its subject, use of different visual media (16mm film and digital video), multiscreens and performance art.

Forewomen of Fordwich (2016)
Documentary by Ezgi Bayram Director, Cinematographer, Editor This short documentary film, Freewomen of Fordwich, investigates the status of women in an English small town (Fordwich in Kent) from a historical and modern day viewpoint. The film primarily focuses on the punishment of women in the medieval period in particular and compares this to the historical status of ‘Freewoman’ that was also a feature of women’s history in Fordwich. The film compares this history with the story of two modern day women who were recently given the honorary title of Free Woman . These two women also have power in the town being the former major and the current Landlady of the town pub, The Fordwich Arms. The reasons why I was drawn to this small town and its interesting perspective on women are due to me being a foreign student and encountering unfamiliar historical punishment methods such as the Ducking Stool and the Scold’s Bridle. This led to me being curious about women who live in a small English town in terms of both history and contemporary life.

Covered (2016)
Drama Director, Cinematographer, Editor Covered is a short film which looks at how censorship in TV and the internet affects people unwittingly. It intends to show how the media affects the way we see our everyday life. The film focuses on a woman, in her mid-20s who is so affected by media to the point that she sees and hears the world through pixelation and bleeps without realizing. A series of encounters in her life shows the audience that she does not live the reality she thinks he does.