Non Serviam!

2016 10'50" 2K 2 Channel

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When I watched the gruesome "Collateral Murder" footage that had been released on Julian Assange's web page, it made a great depression on my sense of humanity and destroyed my optimism on powers which once I had a trust. Afterwards, it occurred as a work period that considers daily life around 4 elements and psychic dimensions within the Prometheus cult. Non Serviam is the outcome of this era. When I visited Amsterdam Film Museum, a bunch of kids caught my attention who were lining up the dead ants onto the wall that they had killed by drowning in a bottle of water. They were acting like doing a very serious job rather than entertaining themselves. Then one of them, with others; started to observe the animals which were lined like train wagons, with a magnifying glass. Then, probably as I was standing nearby, I realised that, they were doing this "observation" ritual game to bypass me watching them, for the real action they were keenly looking forward to. Because it was barely seen that they were impatient for something to come as if they were on a countdown, staring at me occasionally. Then I walked away and sat on the terrace of the museum. I could see the blue smoke over the ants that were burnt by the focused sunlight through the magnifying glass... On the same day's evening, in an antiques shop, it was a Japan flag with the red sun on top of origamic birds settled on a 16th century Dutch coffee table. Then I thought to myself, the 12 corner coffee table damasked with leave patterns turning around it, the blue smoke over the ants which were folded by the empowered sunlight by the magnifying glass, enough to burn to ultimate fade out. Then I recalled Prometheus.



Credits:

Directed
Filmed
Produced

Sefer Memisoğlu

Postproduction

Busefer

Sound Design

Yunus Emre Deger

Folding Lady

Malou Brauers

Hypnos

Natascha Petrovska

Special
Thanks to

Volkan Memisoglu
Fahrettin Orenli
Walid Tokhi
Joris Westerman

Exclusive
Thanks to

Malou Brauers
Natascha Petrovska
Sabien Westerman

Supported by

Het Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst