Florenza Deniz İncirli
05.koçum benim [my ram]

Lefkoşa, Gazafana and Gönyeli, Cyprus
2021
11 minutes

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Koçum Benim is an assemblage of personal archive footage from 2019. This film acts as an intimate portrait of Cypriot men, offering an opaque ethnography of post-conflict Cyprus.

Following three generations of the İncirli family, each performing shifting masculinities and their relationship to the land and culture. Filmed before the COVID-19 pandemic and edited during, the meaning of the work itself transformed through several iterations. 


 Still from film, Serhat İncirli driving through north Nicosia. 
Still from film, Sıtkı  İncirli describing the plants in his daughter and son-in-law’s garden.  
Still from film, Ekim İncirli recites his writing in his mother’s Gazafana home.