SEAFF 2016 | Merkur

Melis Balcı & Ege Okal, Merkur

In the film Merkür a young artist who works as a gallery assistant is taken to a luxury dinner with her boss, the gallery owner, after an international art fair. An art collector, a curator and an institution director join the table where she is introduced to the hierarchy of the art world.

Melis Balci and Ege Okal are independent animation filmmakers living and working in Istanbul. Merkür is their first animated film as a duo,