Dystopian Reflections of Space and Identity: Becoming Minor, Cinema, Literature

Abstract

It is clear that the existential crisis experienced by the urban dweller in socio-spatial terms, just like the violently growing urban space, of which s/he is the actor, is largely reflected in one’s daily life. The crisis, which flourished by being articulated with socio-cultural pressures, developed a kind of survival reflex (conatus) in the city dwellers, which is abundantly processed in the cinema. The threat posed by the systematically created dystopia of the city to become nowhere and the city dwellers to nobody, means an intervention in the memory of the individual, and therefore the self is considered as the face, just as it does in the urban space. By instrumentalizing the urban space with rapid urban renewals, in the aftermath of the master'sstudy, which focused on cultural memory, collective identities, the shaking of self-perception, the city and the displacement of its urban people in the cultural context, those particular concepts mentioned have been taken further artistically as a proficiency project in art and handled through cinematography. Therefore, this study has been produced from the thesis of proficiency in art in connection with a short film project in which the phenomena such as displacement, becoming minor, memory, identity and space construction, which are investigated in the light of the philosophy of cineanthropos, are examined. The phenomenon of alienation, which has become striking with its cinematic manifestations, and the concept of becoming minor, which is adopted by the city dweller as an extension of it, has been emphasized through the study as a justified form of objection in terms of resisting socially acceptable values, the signifier, and suggesting alternative signifiers.