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Blog, disappointment guaranteed

Conceptualizations

A Manifesto to Break

miracatabey, April 13, 2024November 8, 2025

Cinema manifestos always evoke conflicting notions in me. On one hand, they are good as…

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Operations

How I Met My Kindred Spirit

miracatabey, April 6, 2024November 27, 2025

I have never felt the urge to meet my favorite filmmakers in person. Because I…

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Reflections

Don’t Expect to Get Rid of the Labels

miracatabey, March 19, 2024December 23, 2025

As our human brains love shortcuts, labels are quick to emerge. They are our tools…

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Reflections

Unstoppable Paranoias: Symbols

miracatabey, February 27, 2024November 8, 2025

Films, photographs, and paintings are not just observed and experienced, they are read and even…

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Narrations

Award Guaranteed Synopsis

miracatabey, February 11, 2024April 14, 2026

Here, I will share a short synopsis that I guarantee to be a hit on…

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Curations

We are All Re-Mixers

miracatabey, December 29, 2023May 31, 2026

Stepping into broad literature, I find myself questioning the need for my words when it…

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Inspirations

Our Old Friends

miracatabey, November 23, 2023November 7, 2025

For many of us, we learn about cinema through our old friends: Cartoons. Every cartoon…

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Narrations

A Summary of All Poems

miracatabey, November 20, 2023April 1, 2025

Self, self, self Self, self, self, self Self-self Self, self, self Self, self, self, self…

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Narrations

Three Masters in the Grasp of Fate

miracatabey, November 13, 2023April 14, 2026

Here, I will introduce you to three master painters I admire. And I will share…

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Reflections

The Death of Independent Cinema

miracatabey, October 27, 2023December 23, 2025

My fellow creatives and all you people of diverse pronouns, Independent Cinema is dead. It…

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Latest Updates

June 7, 2026 Added reflections on Marriage-Ala-Mode to the Films section.

May 16, 2026 Added a new section titled Reactions, where I share viewer reactions to my films.

May 4, 2026 Added info about my next project, Germakochi, to the In Progress section.

Mar 20, 2026 Added a Sound Effects & Ambience category to the Library section.

Oct 13, 2025 Created a Letterboxd page where I share lists of films I mention in my blog posts.

Jan 19, 2025 Added an update in the My Damned Film is Now Available post about our collaboration with the streaming service MUBI.

Nov 11, 2024 Updated the list of film festivals that rejected my film in the Films section (under the title of Festival Circuit).

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Latest Posts

  • Thank You, San Sebastian
  • Lessons from Turkish Masters
  • Keywords for Mirac Atabey
  • Keywords for The Children of Festivalism
  • A Message from Cannes
  • Mission Completed: Marriage A-la-Mode
  • Character Cheat Sheet
  • The Camera Stays Still, But You Don’t
  • Ballad of Consolation
  • Micmuss Curation
  • Criticism is Impudence
  • Fair Laurels for Film Festivals
  • Meet Ramazan the Great
  • I Want to be Popular
  • Status: Fishing in the Ocean of Possibilities
  • Experimental Redefined
  • Helping, Collaborating and Prejudices
  • Humans on Report
  • Reminders
  • Shakespeare Humbled
  • Confessions
  • Cinema Myths Debunked
  • Inside The Jury
  • Flowers, Foxes and Self-Promotion
  • A Guide to Self-Censorship
  • Temperate Melancholy
  • My Damned Film is Now Available
  • The Filmmaker’s Prayer
  • Don’t Underestimate Your Everyday Films
  • World Cinema 101
  • A Manifesto to Break
  • How I Met My Kindred Spirit
  • Don’t Expect to Get Rid of the Labels
  • Unstoppable Paranoias: Symbols
  • Award Guaranteed Synopsis
  • We are All Re-Mixers
  • Our Old Friends
  • A Summary of All Poems
  • Three Masters in the Grasp of Fate
  • The Death of Independent Cinema
  • Director Curve
  • My Favorite Filmmaker from the 16th Century
  • A Scale for Artistic Depth
  • Kick-off: Let’s Praise the Act of Writing

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