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özge Akarsu

Emine

Experimental fiction | hdv | color | 11:39 | Turkey | 2020

It is April 7th 2020, 8 months has passed since Emine Bulut was murdered by her former husband. There is a letter which is written to her, and to all femicide victims around the world; a letter which questions femininity, how it feels to be a woman in Turkey…

Özge Akarsu was born and raised in Turkey. She currently lives in Belgium where she also studies animation film at Royal Academy of Fine Arts (KASK), in Ghent. Before starting studying animation, she achieved a master's degree in Human Rights Law, specialized in Political Philosophy, in Istanbul. After three years of doing a PhD research on Spinoza and modernity at University of Antwerp, she got interested in animation and filmmaking which helps her to express thoughts, feelings, ideas, instincts that cannot be explained solely in words.