zanzō · selected works

a two-person film and image practice, working with artificial intelligence, based in istanbul.
in search of the feeling that stays after the light is gone.

the red bag — film still ▶  play
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short film · 2026 · 11′ screener on request

a memoir told in borrowed images — childhood, pressure, and the things a family does not say.

’04 8 15 — photograph view
photograph · 2025

a flash in the dark garden. the date is part of the picture.

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the red bag

short film · 2026 · 11′ screener on request
the red bag — film still

a memoir told in borrowed images — childhood, pressure, and the things a family does not say.

told as a video collage: home-video texture, borrowed light, a red bag that keeps returning. currently in production; festival premiere planned.

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a love story

music video · 2026 · 4′
a love story — film still

four chapters of one life, photographed as if by accident.

youth, daily life, middle age, old age — one couple, four seasons of the same feeling, shot in the language of amateur snapshots.

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study: waiting

moving image · 2026 · 2′
study: waiting — film still

five umbrellas and the sound of rain on a shelter roof.

a single fixed frame. the weather does the editing.

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study: two rooftops

moving image · 2026 · 3′
study: two rooftops — film still

the city keeps a polite distance between people.

two figures, one skyline, and the exact width of everything unsaid.

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study: the door

moving image · 2025 · 1′
study: the door — film still

a man, a door, and the exact weight of an ordinary task.

work as choreography: one push, held until it becomes a portrait.

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’04 8 15

photograph · 2025
’04 8 15 — photograph

a flash in the dark garden. the date is part of the picture.

from an ongoing series of dated photographs — images that carry their own timestamp like a diary carries a margin.

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a zanzō film direction, image & edit — zanzō 2025
zan· /zan.zoː/ n., Japanese

1.afterimage —the image that remains in the eye after the light is gone.

zanzō is a two-person film and image practice, based in istanbul.

after years in photography and documentary production, we now make films and photographs with emerging artificial tools. many of our works begin as studies, small experiments in how a mood can be reached. what matters to us is not how an image is made, but what it makes you feel.

in search of the feeling that stays after the light is gone.


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