Forms of Care
Shorts
Salt Beyoğlu
December 16, 2025 19.00
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Still from Signs of Life (2021)
©Marko Nikolić
©Marko Nikolić
Walk-in Cinema
Presented as part of Forms of Care, this selection brings together three short films that explore the tension between aging bodies and aging buildings. Spanning the UK, Mexico, and Serbia, it approaches built environments not as static backdrops but as active agents that embody gestures and memory. Through observational and experimental forms, the films reposition care and resilience as central forces in how one inhabits space.
She Waves at Me, Inge Daniels, 2022, 20’
She Waves at Me explores what it means to be an aging body within an aging housing estate in Central London. Based on 18 months of empirical research and observation, the film captures the careful maintenance of the buildings and their surroundings, alongside the strategies older inhabitants adopt to transform their homes into safe, comfortable, and resilient spaces.
Wrinkles, Daisy Ziyan Zhang, 2023, 12’
Set in a residential building in Mexico City that has endured decades of use, destruction, abandonment, repair, and care, Wrinkles explores the architectural afterlives of domestic spaces. Investigating how care labor shapes the spaces one inhabits, Daisy Ziyan Zhang uses her camera as a tool to experiment with film, 3D scanning, and robotic fabrication.
Signs of Life, Marko Nikolić, 2021, 34’
This documentary looks at the stories behind long-abandoned hotels in Serbia, and how they have altered over time, through the accounts of former employees. Combining visual narrative with personal testimony, the film explores the fate of deserted hotels as a metaphor for the current state of contemporary societies.
The free-admission program is open to everyone. The films will be shown in their original languages with English and Turkish subtitles.
Presented as part of Forms of Care, this selection brings together three short films that explore the tension between aging bodies and aging buildings. Spanning the UK, Mexico, and Serbia, it approaches built environments not as static backdrops but as active agents that embody gestures and memory. Through observational and experimental forms, the films reposition care and resilience as central forces in how one inhabits space.
She Waves at Me, Inge Daniels, 2022, 20’
She Waves at Me explores what it means to be an aging body within an aging housing estate in Central London. Based on 18 months of empirical research and observation, the film captures the careful maintenance of the buildings and their surroundings, alongside the strategies older inhabitants adopt to transform their homes into safe, comfortable, and resilient spaces.
Wrinkles, Daisy Ziyan Zhang, 2023, 12’
Set in a residential building in Mexico City that has endured decades of use, destruction, abandonment, repair, and care, Wrinkles explores the architectural afterlives of domestic spaces. Investigating how care labor shapes the spaces one inhabits, Daisy Ziyan Zhang uses her camera as a tool to experiment with film, 3D scanning, and robotic fabrication.
Signs of Life, Marko Nikolić, 2021, 34’
This documentary looks at the stories behind long-abandoned hotels in Serbia, and how they have altered over time, through the accounts of former employees. Combining visual narrative with personal testimony, the film explores the fate of deserted hotels as a metaphor for the current state of contemporary societies.
The free-admission program is open to everyone. The films will be shown in their original languages with English and Turkish subtitles.
