KHAS Art, Design and Architecture Talks – Serdar Biliş and Zeynep Dadak
What happens when two directors, one working in the cinema and the other in the theater, who care about making art productions a part of the academic field, come together?
In this talk, Serdar Biliş and Zeynep Dadak will talk not only about intertextual relations, but also about their effort to create a transdisciplinary free creative space that multiplies forms and texts. They will focus on the moments, issues and transmission processes that excite and inspire them in their collaborative production as well as in personal work.
The event can be followed on zoom and will be broadcast live on Khas Youtube channel. The language of this event will be in Turkish.
Title: The Productive Treshold: The Intersections of Theater and Cinema
Speakers: Serdar Biliş & Zeynep Dadak
Date: December 16, Wednesday | 19.00
Please fill the registration form in advance:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIuduuprD8iGdXwF2Ex2gZOLyTl47CBGN5F
Youtube: https://youtu.be/bGy0KR41fjU
Serdar Biliş
He was born in 1977 in Istanbul. After studying theater directing at Middlesex University in London, he was invited to the directing academy at the English National Theatre. Thanks to this internship, he had the opportunity to hold workshops and share experiences with many directors. He worked as an Artist in Residence at the London National Theater Studio. He has worked as a permanent director at the Arcola Theater and Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse. Here he developed plays with the dramaturgy department, concentrating especially on new texts. He is an international text consultant at the Royal Court Theatre. Biliş, who won a David Frazer scholarship and learned television directing under the roof of Lime Pictures, shot some parts of the “Hollyoaks” series. He gave lectures on acting, dramatic writing and directing at Mountview, RADA and Istanbul City Theatres. He continues to work between London and Istanbul. He is a lecturer at Kadir Has University Theater Department.
Zeynep Dadak
She completed her cinema education with a bachelor’s degree from Marmara University, a master’s degree from Bilgi University, and a PhD in Cinema Studies from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts. “Mavi Dalga” (2013), written and directed by Merve Kayan, had its international premiere at the Berlin Film Festival; It won three awards, including Best Debut Film, at the Golden Orange Film Festival. Her films were screened in many festivals such as Rotterdam, Sheffield and AFI. In 2018, she was selected for the Medienboard Berlin artist residency program, and then for the Berlin Senate Artist Program. The creative documentary “Ah Gözel Istanbul” (2020), written and directed by him, premiered at the prestigious film festival Dokufest, and was subsequently awarded an award at the Istanbul Film Festival. In 2021, she directed the series “Terapist” for the Gain platform. During her career, Dadak gave lectures at various universities and continued to produce films and videos in different formats and lengths. She still teaches directing at Kadir Has University MA Program in Film and Drama. On the one hand, she continues the preparations for her new fictional film “Uyku Kampı” in Berlin and Istanbul.