Florenza Deniz İncirli
01.they gave me a camera to know where i’m from 

London and Cyprus, 2024
11 minutes


work-in-progress

As part of an ongoing research project, this work-in-progress is an excavation from the director's personal archives. Family videos from the early 2000s, recorded by her journalist father, Serhat İncirli, are assembled to reveal fragments of a politicised familial life. Both father and daughter mediate their experience of the world through film and text. Through repetition, ritual and conversation, this work explores how children in the Cypriot diasporas perceive and experience memory, cultural identity and displacement.


1/2 Image of artist as a baby in London 1998.
2/2 Still from film, young people performing a traditional Cypriot dance in a London park (1998).