Does choice exist?
Is free will real?
Habitus of Self is produced based on Pierre Bourdieu’s concept of “habitus”. All audio-visual materials are mined from www.youtube.com (which is a digital habitus itself). In this film, an audio-visual archaeological study of the effect of habitus (family, society, country, system) on the existence of the individual is performed. The film is an assemblage (agencement) that embodies the domination of family institution, control society, consumerism, capitalism, post-colonialism, etc. over the unconscious, the conscious and the superconscious through collective memory images (space-phenomenon-event-institution-individual).
Kurtuluş Özgen (1971) has been producing non-fiction films and cultural projects over 20 years. His films have been screened in more than 50 national and international film festivals and have won 14 awards. His photography and video works have been selected for several art exhibitions.
Özgen received his bachelor’s degree in Cinema, his graduate degree in Painting (2012) and Phd in Art in New Media (2017). He also studied contemporary art history and video art. His academic focus is on documentary film studies, digital cinematography, video art and new media. He continues to be an associate professor at AHBV University Fine Arts Faculty, Department of Photography and Video.
