Discipline: Film/Video – feature

Burak Cevik

Discipline: Film/Video – feature
Region: Berlin, GERMANY
MacDowell Fellowships: 2023

Filmmaker Burak Cevik is the founder of Fol Cinema Society and is a curator of experimental and arthouse film screenings. He was lecturer on non-fiction between 2018-2020 at Istanbul Bilgi University.

His films The Pillar of Salt (2018), Belonging (2019), and Forms of Forgetting (2023) premiered at Berlinale Forum. His video works have screened at various festivals, such as Locarno Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, FID Marseille and New York Film Festival.

Portrait by Lea Rener

Studios

Putnam

Burak Cevik worked in the Putnam studio.

The Graphics Studio (as it was originally named) was converted to its present use in 1972–1974 through a grant from the Putnam Foundation, and originally served the property as both a power house and pump house. Well water was pumped from a large cistern to Hillcrest, the Foreman’s Cottage, and the lower buildings closer to…

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