'i wake up' is a stop-motion short film created in Istanbul in 2020 during lockdown. It stages feminist poems by Çağla Meknuze through voice and movement and traces the place of women in turkish and greek cultures.

Dance & voice Mairi Pardalaki

Texts Çağla Meknuze, extracts from poems "The Cat is Right" and "No myth", translated in English by C. Gökçenur and Claire Ölmez

Photos & editing Beril Ece Güler

Sound recording Emre Malikler

Production 'Be Mobile Create Together', a European programme led by the Institut Français de Turquie, the Embassy of the Netherlands in Ankara, the Goethe-Institut and the Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts (İKSV)