2022
5 Movements
5 Movements is a ten-minute immersive piece about body, space, and time. Five performers move through distinct choreographic languages while slit-scan and spatial projection turn motion into layered visual traces at architectural scale. Nohlab led creative direction; the work opened at Hall des Lumières in New York as part of a larger Culturespaces Digital production.
My contribution focused on the technical and visual system that made the slit-scan language work at that scale. The venue's topology, pixel density, and wall-to-floor geometry had to be solved first. Otherwise the effects would break the moment they left a single screen. Much of the wider production lived in After Effects; this section migrated into TouchDesigner instead, rebuilt as a custom real-time 3D environment with GLSL shaders and bespoke flows so teams could watch iterations live rather than wait on renders.
On the image side, I developed the floor and ceiling visuals, while the wall treatments grew together with Balkan Karışman. The shift to real-time changed the rhythm of the room: adjustments happened in the space, not in a render queue, and this section never returned to offline comp.
Continuity was the engineering heart of the piece: slit-scan traces staying readable at massive resolution, animating without seams across walls, floor, and ceiling, playback reliable enough for a public installation. Solving that pipeline is what made the immersive scale hold.
5 Movements is a 10-minute immersive audiovisual experience about the relationship between body movement, space, and time. Five performers move through distinct choreographic languages, while slit-scan and spatial projection techniques turn their motion into layered visual traces. The piece makes the in-between phases of movement visible at architectural scale.
The work draws from traditional dance, ballet, street styles, hip-hop, and contemporary performance. Its music moves across African rhythms, contemporary classical writing, electronica, instrumental hip-hop, and Asian references, bringing different movement histories into one immersive choreography.
Credits
DIRECTION & DESIGN: Nohlab
PRODUCTION: Culturespaces Digital
VISUAL ARTISTS: Nohlab, Balkan Karışman, Çağatay Güçlü (Defektu), Berkay Türk, Fehmican Gözüm, Taha Celal Yıldırım, Yasin Sinik
MUSIC DIRECTION, SOUND DESIGN & ORIGINAL MUSIC: Gökalp Kanatsız
TECHNICAL CONTENT DIRECTION: Fehmican Gözüm
NOHLAB TEAM
CREATIVE DIRECTORS: Candaş Şişman, Deniz Kader
PRODUCER: Yasemen Birhekimoğlu
MOTION DESIGNER: Begüm Tunçer
PERFORMANCE & LIVE VIDEO PRODUCTION: CPMistanbul - Cem Görk
PERFORMANCE CHOREOGRAPHER: Volkan Ersoy
PERFORMERS: Kaya Godfrey, Mine İzgi, Deniz Keskin, Büşra Ay
FILMING CREW
DIRECTOR: Cem Terbiyeli
EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: İpek Erden
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Ferhat Uzundağ
COSTUME: Tuğçe Ülkümen
MAKEUP ARTIST: Tuğba Çolakoğlu
COMPOSITING: Mustafa Koç
PERFORMANCE FOOTAGE EDITOR: Teoman Küçükeren
PHOTOGRAPHY: Andrew Kelly [Reuters], Massimo Vendola, Özde Karadağ
VIDEO DOCUMENTATION: Noel Y. Calingasan, Özde Karadağ
