A man falls into the Bosphorus on a snowy night. His son, Mete half-heartedly searches for him in wintered Istanbul.

OUR ARK is an essay film on our efforts to create a virtual replica of the real world.

进入VR，你同时处于两个世界。心在当下，身体在另一个世界。虚拟世界中的存在，需要两个身体、四只手、两颗心。Shadowtime是为人类世创造的一个新词，描述同时占据两个不同时空的感觉。当你在上班途中堵车时，突然意识到发动机中的气体是史前生物的压缩质量；当你浏览手机时，同时见证了地球正在发生的不可逆变化；这些瞬间就是“重影时刻”。《重影时刻》让我们利用时间的不兼容性，在虚拟现实和模拟理论领域进行探索。作品部分内容使用AI完成，非常具有当下性。本片入围2023年威尼斯电影节竞赛单元以及2024年美国SXSW。

A search party searches for someone lost in a forest, in turn becoming lost themselves within the arboreal zone. A half-civilian, half-police force group evacuates the village and the forest for construction, and seek in turn the seekers. An old tree releases a slumbering spell, overtaking everyone within its reach. Selyatağı is built upon the world of Yuva, the Biennale College Cinema feature film.

A gray lizard with yellow spots sits quietly on a tree stump, as digital cameras revolve around it. Click, click, click—the lizard is captured from every angle. Our Ark begins with a company that is making 3D copies of every animal on Earth—starting with the endangered species. A kind of virtual Noah’s ark. Filmmakers Deniz Tortum and Kathryn Hamilton use this digital recording process as the starting point for a visual essay. Now that we have the technological capabilities, we’re trying make a sort of back-up of the entire world—forests are being digitally archived, as are monuments, and even everyday objects like garbage bags. Shots of natural objects alternate with their 3D duplicates; the commentary offers explanation, but at the same time leaves room for us to ask our own questions. Who are all these digital archives for? What purpose is served by our urge to record everything? Do we hope to be able to bring this world back to life? And what happens to our notion of the real world if we think we can reduce it to ones and zeros?