Private Project

Anarchafeminist Divinations

Anarchafeminist Divinations is a ritual-ethnographic reflection that reimagines the Anatolian practice of coffee-ground fortune-telling through the alchemical lens of analogue film. Employing the photochemical technique of chemigramm, the film transforms a traditionally heteronormative medium of divination into a collective, feminist inquiry into possible futures.

Departing from individual fate and romantic projection, it draws on the concept of transindividuality -the idea that no one is free until everyone is- to propose a more entangled vision of futurity. Grounded in speculative ethnography, the work invites viewers into a shared act of sensing, conjuring, and imagining futures shaped by multispecies kinship and solidarity.

Through layered textures, slow transformation, and symbolic ritual, the film opens a space to restore affective and ecological ties between living and non-living beings, reclaiming divination as a political and relational practice.

  • Işıl Karataş
    Director
  • Project Type:
    Documentary, Experimental, Short
  • Runtime:
    16 minutes
  • Completion Date:
    December 1, 2024
  • Production Budget:
    4,000 EUR
  • Country of Origin:
    Austria
  • Language:
    English, German, Turkish
  • Shooting Format:
    Digital, Analogue
  • Film Color:
    Color
  • First-time Filmmaker:
    No
  • Student Project:
    No
Director Biography - Işıl Karataş

Işıl Karataş is a filmmaker, audio-visual artist and PhD candidate at the department of European Cultural Anthropology in Vienna. She experiments with different forms and formats of sound and image-making through research-based work. Her films, soundworks, and live visual performances have been performed at various music and film festivals and anthropological conferences.

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