the curator." What already started in
films. She worked for 2 years on a monthly series on the subject of democracy, for example. Her last documentation focused on prejudices
blogging, reading and photographing
and was called "Turkish March". Ultra-
(Pinterest), Cinovu wanted to continue:
Independent films by a filmmaker
The democratization of curating.
who produces her own films out of
what is good and what is bad. On the Web, the people themselves decide what they want and they become
A wonderful idea, which will probably never be implemented in exactly this form under the name of Cinovu. The website already shows for several months the short message "Cinovu is
necessity. She knows the difficulties of the industry and will therefore continue to work on the idea of Cinovu - under a different name and with an altered concept.
in intermission". This is also part of
As she wants to shift her orientation
the German start-up capital, the idea
more towards the arts, we ask her
that never made it.
about aesthetic and style of her work:
However, Shermin does not seem desperate and when we meet her again after several months in September, she is full of ideas and visions, projects and experiences, which she tells us about enthusiastically. She wants to be more involved in the art scene. One of her film projects called "Black Veiled Woman" made it as centerpiece of the Critical Art Ensemble for a day to the dOCUMENTA (13) in Kassel. She herself is her target audience. Her previous focus lay especially on documentaries, but she also has si
experience in animation and short
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"The high produced is not important to me, narration is my focus. That's not just the story and the plot, but also what you can see in the picture and what disappears from the view. I attach a lot of value to this. Each picture is a story in which you decide: where is the focus of the camera, is it the subject to the left or to the right. I am working more and more in a quickand-dirty style. In the beginning I tried to reach the quality of a Hollywood production with limited resources, but that’s not possible: while doing this you get lost. It was an important lesson for
