Eren Aybars Arpacık

Turkey | B. 1983

Born in July 1983 in Istanbul, Eren Aybars Arpacık graduated in 2006 from Istanbul Bilgi University’s Department of Media and Communication Systems with a scholarship, completing a minor in Cinema and Television. He began his career as assistant director at Interfilm Istanbul and later as post-production manager at Soda Film.
In 2011, he directed and produced On The Road, a 27-episode documentary series filmed in 25 countries for Beiniz TV. In 2017, as cinematographer at Şarküteri Production Company, he created the internationally awarded cave exploration series Notes from the Underground with the Anatolian Speleology Group.
In 2018, he directed Legends of War, an animated war history documentary for TRT Belgesel. Founding Kuzgun Production in 2021, he launched the 2022 series Hayat Var, comprising five award-winning films: The Golden Girls of Etrim, The Hours, Deus Ex Machina, Hello Teacher, and The Sound of the Tree.
That same year, he worked with Peter Greenberg as cinematographer on Tanzania: The Royal Tour (PBS, Amazon Prime, Apple TV+) and later on Hidden Aegean (PBS). He also began producing content for CGTN.
Through his work Eren Aybars Arpacık explores cultural narratives and human experiences with a cinematic language that bridges borders.
 

CREDENCIAIS


 

2023
"The Sound of the Tree" Documentary
-Kobani International Short Film Festival "Best Documentary Award"
-Nomad 2023: A living Land " Official Selection"
-Foca Film Days "Official Selection"
-AIU Film Festival "Official Selection"

2022 
Notes From Underground "Morca" Documentary 
-New York International Film Awards "Best Short Documentary"
-Oniros Film Awards New York "Best Short Documentary"
-SFC Film Festival " Honorable Mention" 
-Series Web Awards Cibertec "Quarter-Finalist"
-AFSAD Short Film Festival "Finalist"
-Lift Off Global Network 2022 "Official Selection"
-Golden Bridge İstanbul Short Film Festival "Official Selection"
-Alpin Mountain Film Festival Romania "Official Selection"
-19th INKAFEST Mountain Film Festival Peru "Official Selection"
-International World Film Awards London "Official Selection"
-Stockholm City Film Festival "Official Selection"
-Beausoleil Côte d'Azur International FICTS Festival du Cinéma Sportif "Official Selection"
-Egyptian American Film Festival "Semi Finalist"

"The Golden Girls of Etrim" Documentary 
-24th International Golden Saffron Documentary Film Festival "Suha Arın Best Documentary Award"
-AFSAD Short Film Festival "Merter Oral Special Award"
-KISFFO Karditsa International Short Film Festival Opseis "Cinematic Achievement Award"
-Cannes Film Awards "Official Selection"
-The 5th Meihodo International Youth and Visual Media Festival "Bronze Prize" 
-22nd Izmir International Film Festival "Official Selection"
-Lift Off Global Network 2022 "Official Selection"
-Kino Festival "Light of the World" Russia 2022 "Official Selection"
-Peloponnisos International Doc Film Festival "Official Selection"
-2º Kaaffilm International Short Film Festival "Official Section"
-3. Aizanoi Film Fest "Finalist"
-Antakya 11th International Film Festival "Finalist"
-Violeta Film Fest "Official Selection"

"Kadıini" Documentary
-Firenze Archeofilm Festival "Official Selection"
-Lane Doc Fest "Official Selection"
-3. Aizanoi Film Fest "Finalist"
-12th Tangier Film Festival "Official Selection"

"Hello Teacher" Documentary
-SFC Film Festival " Honorable Mention" 
-ZERO PLUS International Film Festival "Official Selection"
-The 5th Meihodo International Youth and Visual Media Festival "Official Selection
-Lift-Off Filmmaker Sessions 2023 "Official Selection
-Lane Doc Fest "Official Selection"
-Morgana Film Festival "Official Selection"


2021 
"İkizköy" Documentary
-18. International Labor Film Festival "Official Selection"
-Give Peace a Screen Short Film Festival "Official Selection"
-Lift Off Global Network 2022 "Official Selection"
 

In Colors Project ED#2 Home
Decagon Gallery Flash #9 Online exhibition  

Exposições Lumicroma

IN COLORS PROJECT | REACT!
React! is a portrait of the human condition and the perception of the world, showing different speeds, multiple realities, encounters and inequalities, so many reactions.

The broadness ... Ler Mais
React! is a portrait of the human condition and the perception of the world, showing different speeds, multiple realities, encounters and inequalities, so many reactions.

The broadness to which the theme is open is represented in this set of 50 artworks by photographers from 22 nationalities. React! to what, from what perspective? The possibility of endless interpretations is mirrored in an exhibition in which the reaction is as much in the photographed "scene" itself as in the impression of the person who photographed it, and also, and always, in the eye of the person who appreciates the photograph.
In this realm, there is the image of time and place, of many places and many qualities of time. There is the beauty of moments, spaces, cultures and traditions. There is a whole scale of emotions. There is the poetry of landscapes and the destruction wrought by war. There is fantasy in improbable scenarios. There are global concerns, personal instances. Sometimes the weight of existence; sometimes the lightness of laughter in the face of death. 
There remains, still, the certainty of a kaleidoscopic world, in permanent change, so that stories repeat themselves. Because man repeats himself. The continuity of life is also maintained. It is in the faces of many. It is in the colors. It is in the light of black and white. It is in the instinct. In the will. In what is lost, in what is conquered. Ler Menos
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IN COLORS PROJECT | HOME
With HOME, the theme of the 2nd edition of IN COLORS PROJECT, we set photographers from all over the world a challenge made of delicate matter. We wanted everything from photography - the artistic and ... Ler Mais
With HOME, the theme of the 2nd edition of IN COLORS PROJECT, we set photographers from all over the world a challenge made of delicate matter. We wanted everything from photography - the artistic and emotional act, the conscious and political act, light and shadow. The result is an exhibition that manifests multiple realities in the same blood.

In 74 photographs, 32 authors from 14 nationalities give us the most poignant portrait of what we are, what we do and what we are failing at. Because HOME has smiles and exposed wounds. It shows a sense of belonging and an absurd lack of ground. It is the human cloak of a thousand patches to which we all belong.
This is our Home. And we can't close our eyes.

IN COLORS PROJECT - an initiative without borders by Lumicroma - reclaims the relevance of photography as a socio-cultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences, aesthetics and visions, it aims to trace, every year, the big picture of the times in which we live. Ler Menos
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AUSCHWITZ: TRACE(S) OF A LEGACY
Auschwitz: Trace(s) of a legacy is a project that uses photography as a means of creating a link between past, present and future.
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilanc ... Ler Mais
Auschwitz: Trace(s) of a legacy is a project that uses photography as a means of creating a link between past, present and future.
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilance and encourages the commitment of future generations, so that, through these, the voices of the survivors, which will soon no longer be heard, can echoe.
We know the history, we have seen the films and we have read the books. We have always been told that Auschwitz is the true symbol of Holocaust, since more than one million jews were murdered there. A factory of killing people! Gypsies, ho-mossexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and political dissidents also suffered in this dark place.
We have read about the hideous experiments carried out by Mengele in Auschwitz. We have seen photographies of the survivors, of the corpses, of the crematoriums, of the abandoned personal belongings. We started our journey to Poland with the thought that we would be prepared to face the interpretative centre of the Holocaust and, through it, find the answer to our restlessness: how could this have been humanly possible?
During the journey, we revisited those with whom we had previously shared the feeling of the concentration camp. All the pages, testimonies and faces remained well alive in our memories.
We have arrived, the presence in Auschwitz overwhelms us!
No memory, read, studied, seen or heard can be compared to standing right there. In the deafening silence of that place, which carries within itself the imense loss of human sense, the question of Theodor Adorno gains strenght: How can poetry be possible after Auschwitz Ler Menos
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COURA'S PARADISE

Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget th ... Ler Mais

Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget that breathtaking human wall and the generous way they are received. It captures the sweetness, the serenity, the deepest peace, the shared love, the respect, the amazement, the unique energy of the Taboão river, contrasted with the exaltation, the apotheosis, the celebration and the joy, that sacred emotion that Almada Negreiros once said was "the most serious thing in life".
Year after year, we need the Paredes de Coura Festival to recharge the batteries of passion, to dispel the mediocrity of the grayest days, to cure the diseases of the sadness that makes us pale and to chase away the city carrion that burrows into our bones. To fill ourselves with beauty, euphoria and the deepest peace, in divine communion with nature. On pilgrimage, in a perpetual return to magic.

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IN COLORS PROJECT | JOY
This third edition of the In Colors Project, under the theme JOY, brings together 75 works by 56 authors from 22 countries, forming an emotional atlas that interrogates the ways in which joy is expres ... Ler Mais
This third edition of the In Colors Project, under the theme JOY, brings together 75 works by 56 authors from 22 countries, forming an emotional atlas that interrogates the ways in which joy is expressed in a world marked by geopolitical tensions and systemic crises.
Photography, as a device for representation and mediation, emerges as a territory for ideological, aesthetic, and poetic experimentation. The selected images map out visual strate- gies through which different cultures are encoded, ritualized, and transmitted. Encompassing a range of representational expressions – from collective celebration to intimate contemplation – each author presents a singular visual lexicon, revealing joy as a socio-anthropological and aesthetic praxis, while envisioning the creation of possible futures.
The curatorial approach is structured around the hypothesis that the photographic image constitutes a device for reconfiguring sensibility, for analyzing and interpreting reality, transfigured and appropriated into autonomous and individual realities, prompting us to question the conditions of possibility for pleasure, encounter, and transformation in contemporary societies.
Curated by Aníbal Lemos and Sandra Maria Teixeira

IN COLORS PROJECT – a borderless initiative by Lumicroma – reclaims the relevance of photography as a sociocultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences reflecting on the current world and through photographic creation, it aims to annually trace the grand image of the time in which we live. Ler Menos
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