Nilüfer Neslihan Arslan is a filmmaker and scholar born in New York. She holds a BA in Urban Planning from Istanbul Technical University and an MA in Film from Bahçeşehir University, where she explored mapping in early Jarmusch films. Her work centers on video forms, cartography, and videographic criticism. She co-authored a book chapter on resistance and representation in GLOW (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). She directed the music video Korsan Taksi (2023) and produced the short fiction Curtains (2024). In 2023, she attended Scholarship in Sound and Image: Workshop on Videographic Criticism at Middlebury College in Vermont. Her video essays have been presented at SCMS 2024 (Boston) and NECS 2024 (Izmir). The same year, she attended the Locarno Film Festival Documentary Summer School and was nominated as an Emerging Voice in Sight and Sound’s Annual Best Video Essays Poll.