Ahmet Ekrem Şahin

Producer / Director / Founder

Ahmet Ekrem Şahin is a Turkish director and visual media creator born on January 10, 2003. He graduated from Kocaeli University, Faculty of Communication, Department of Radio, Television and Cinema in 2025.

During his university years, he actively worked in various areas of filmmaking, taking part in many productions in roles such as screenwriter, director, cinematographer, and editor. For his graduation project, he produced a short film in which he undertook the entire creative process, including screenplay, directing, cinematography, and post-production.

Şahin’s work often focuses on visual storytelling, metaphorical imagery, and experimental cinematic language. Throughout his career, he has contributed to several film projects in both technical and creative roles. In the project “Am I Pretty?”, he worked in lighting and editing, while in “Fısıltı” he served as cinematographer, camera operator, and lighting technician.

He also directed two music videos for the artist Zeynep Nalbant and produced a short film about water scarcity in collaboration with the Art Nicomedia Foundation.

His short film “Gece Gündüz” received the Best Director Award at the Körfez Film Festival. In addition, he appeared as an extra in the TV series “Akif” and gained experience on various film and television sets.

Şahin has also been involved in theater productions, working as a theater assistant at Harakas Theatre with director Avni Kütükoğlu and participating in theater projects organized by Banu İnan at KOMEK.

He is proficient in professional media software such as Adobe Premiere Pro, DaVinci Resolve, Lightroom, OBS, and Streamlabs. He has worked with professional cameras including the Sony FX30 and Fujifilm X-H2S, and also holds an IHA-1 (amateur/sport) drone pilot license.

Since 2025, Şahin has been working in the media industry as a journalist and broadcast crew member, while continuing to develop film and visual storytelling projects. He aims to create works that explore the philosophical and metaphorical dimensions of visual narrative.

Team

Janna Poliashova

Visual Artist / Visual Director

JANNA POLIASHOVA (b.1991, Ukraine) сrimean-born multidisciplinary artist, сurrently based in Tbilisi, Georgia Surveying Engineering, spatial measurement and environmental structuring. marine mammal trainer (Dolphins), behavioral observation and response-based communication. personal Stylist & Content Creator, visual composition and narrative construction. art direction (Freelance), development of visual and spatial concepts for artistic projects. My practice operates at the intersection of memory, perception, and embodied experience, where identity is not understood as a fixed structure but as a continuously reorganized field of internal states. I approach memory not as a static archive of past events, but as an active, unstable process through which meaning is constantly rewritten by emotion, time, and psychological condition. This approach is deeply informed by my background in behavioral observation as a dolphin trainer, where attention to subtle shifts in movement, response, and non-verbal communication became a foundational mode of perception. Working with animals trained me to read behavior as language—precise, fragmented, and deeply dependent on context. Later experiences in visual styling, content creation, and art direction expanded this sensitivity into a broader visual and spatial logic, where composition, atmosphere, and narrative structure function as interconnected systems of perception rather than separate disciplines. Long-term experiences of anxiety and depression have shaped my relationship with memory, affecting the continuity of recall. In certain periods, access to emotionally positive memories becomes partially blocked, while sensory fragments—smells, textures, bodily sensations— remain intensely present. This uneven structure of memory directly informs how I think about perception: not as a stable record, but as a fluctuating field of access, loss, and reassembly. Within my artistic practice, I investigate the threshold between lived experience and its reconstruction. I am interested in the moment where experience becomes image, and image becomes interpretation—where the self is not revealed but continuously assembled through shifting perceptual fragments, both conscious and involuntary. This process is not purely conceptual but deeply embodied, shaped by how memory behaves under emotional and psychological pressure. Ultimately, my practice constructs perceptual systems in which memory behaves like a living material—eroding, accumulating, and reorganizing itself over time. Rather than stabilizing identity, my work traces its continuous formation under conditions of emotional instability, displacement, and shifting perception.

Nisanur Karahan

Editor / Videographer

Nisanur Karahan, born April 14, 2004, is a final-year student at Kocaeli University's Faculty of Communication, Department of Journalism and Radio, Television, and Cinema. During her four years of university life, she completed internships in various places and has been regularly writing and creating stories since high school. She works in screenwriting, directing, and editing. She worked at local agencies in Bursa, writing news articles, street interviews, and opinion columns. She worked for two years at Kocaeli University News Agency and as a director at Nokta Media. She continues to write opinion columns regularly, focusing on culture and arts. She directed her first short film, "Bahar Akşamı" (Spring Evening). She continues to produce video podcast content called "Anlam Arası" (Between Meanings). She served as the vice president of the theater club and participated in various theater productions as an actress and director. She is the head of the dramaturgy department, leading workshops on the dramaturgy of plays.

Atilla Adıyaman

Video Editor / Cinematographer

Atilla Adıyaman, born in 2001, graduated from Trakya University with a degree in Radio and Television Programming, followed by a degree in Radio, Television, and Cinema from Kocaeli University. He has developed his skills in photography, visual production, cinematography, and editing; focusing on camera technologies and image aesthetics, he actively works with Canon, Sony, and Fujifilm systems. He is proficient in manual focusing techniques and consciously uses sharpness, light, and composition control within scenes. He has gained experience working with vintage and modern lenses, creating unique cinematic aesthetics based on different image characteristics. In editing, he is proficient in Adobe Premiere Pro and DaVinci Resolve, prioritizing rhythm, color grading, and narrative integrity in his projects. Adıyaman continues to produce short film projects and individual visual works, developing his skills through technical experiments with different lens combinations, adapter systems, and equipment compatibility. He continues his work in the fields of image management, scene atmosphere creation, and cinematography. They continue their production by combining technical expertise with an aesthetic approach.