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"Kız Kaçırma" (Bride Kidnapping) is a 4-minute short I finished this week. Bride kidnapping is a real practice. In this one, the bride is the one doing the kidnapping.
Mid-2000s Anatolia. A 19-year-old girl drives to a boy's house at night and takes him. The whole film is narrated by a letter she wrote before she left, in the future tense, telling him everything that is going to happen so he won't be surprised. The film's framing is that I found this letter in my inbox, which is a lie I am fond of.
Made with Seedance 2.5 through Higgsfield.

Bu Gece Son is a short film about a night I’ve been waiting for since I was a kid: the night aliens finally arrive.
Out of millions of places, they choose Istanbul.
I wanted to imagine the arrival not as an invasion or a disaster, but almost as another strange night in the city. Nobody really knows what they bring with them, or what they might take away, but somehow I feel like a lot of people in Istanbul would just go outside, watch, drink, talk and enjoy the moment.

After all, it’s the last night.

Would love to hear what you think, especially about the atmosphere and the world of the film.

Made with higgsfield

More of my work: instagram - alidem01

For the past few years I’ve been collecting data on forced migration routes — not from official statistics, but from individual stories of people who crossed borders with no return date.

The result is ONEWAY: an interactive journey through that data. Each path through the site is a different country, a different route, a different kind of departure.

What made this challenging was the data itself. Official migration datasets flatten the human element entirely. So I built an alternative archive — one where the data points are people, not numbers.

Would love to hear from anyone who has worked with migration or displacement data. How do you handle the tension between visualization and human dignity?

🌐 onewaytrip.net

Ali Demirel
📷 instagram.com/alidem01
✉️ works.alidemirel@gmail.com