İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri

At midnight, two lab assistants study an unknown substance using machines and procedures that are unclear to us. They pursue knowledge through the strict logic of the laboratory. As exhaustion settles in, one of the assistants brews Turkish coffee for the other, and the night shifts. The process becomes a fortune-telling, and the scientific gaze gives way to intuition. Moving from analysis to foresight, the two women imagine another method of knowing, a space where rational inquiry and intuitive perception coexist.

Burak Çevik is a producer and filmmaker. He completed his studies in film and television at Istanbul Bilgi University in 2016. His films The Pillar of Salt (2018), Belonging (2019) and Forms of Forgetting (2023) have premiered at the Berlinale. His latest film, Nothing in Its Place (2024), screened at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His work has also been shown at MoMA, Locarno and the New York Film Festival (NYFF).

Director Burak Çevik. Screenplay Burak Çevik. Cinematography Gregory Oke. Editing Burak Çevik. Music Zeynep Toraman. Sound Design Taylan Geçit, Deniz Can Barış. Production Design Dilşad Aladağ. Costumes Dilşad Aladağ. Producer Burak Çevik. Co-Producers Kanat Doğramacı, Nuri Cem Erbak, Vanja Vascarac, Stjepan Hundic. Art Director Dilşad Aladağ. Production company Fol Film (Istanbul, Turkey). With Nalan Kuruçim, Bahar Çevik, Didar Püren Erbek.

Films: 2018: The Pillar of Salt (Forum 2018). 2019: Belonging (Forum 2019), A Topography of Memory. 2023: Forms of Forgetting (Forum 2023). 2024: Nothing in Its Place. 2026: İki Laborantın Yorgun Saatleri / The Weary Hours of Two Lab Assistants.