2022
Poetry Performance Video/ 4:40
Poem & Performance: Çağla Meknuze
Music: Mert Kamiller
Video: Arda Gül
Executive Producers: Mert Kamiller, Arda Gül, Çağla Meknuze
Please watch via this link
The HUNT is a timeless and placeless poetry performance video that traces the enduring persecution of women across centuries. The art work combines the legacy
of the witch hunts in medieval Europe with a poem composed of monologues inspired by the lives of women from around the world, past and present. These
monologues depict situations that women everywhere may face, evoking contemporary witch hunts in countries such as Afghanistan and Iran—not as metaphor, but as lived reality.
Performed and written by the poet herself, and accompanied by music composed specifically for the film, the work transforms personal testimony into a collective
echo—standing for the countless women whose voices were silenced, erased, or never recorded. Blending poetry, music, sound, performance, and image, The HUNT
reveals how the hunt continues—reshaped, renamed, but unbroken.
Screenings:
ORDSPRAK UPPSALA INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL, UPPSALA,
Sweden, September 30, 2023
12th INTERNATIONAL VIDEO POETRY FESTIVAL, Athens, Greece, April 11,
2025
WORLDTHREADING FESTIVAL (Digital Screening) RED DOOR MAG. April
24, 2025
VERSOPOLIS, Poetry Expo 25 (permanent online archive)
ART VISUAL & POETRY FILM FESTIVAL – OFFICIAL COMPETITION (BEST
POETRY PERFORMANCE) VIENNA, AUSTRIA | 7–10 APRIL 2026
Photo: Art Visuals & Poetry Film Festival, Vienna, Austria / April 2026
Photo by David Dunst