Sodom was a film performance for which I wrote its script in 2019 and directed It in 2020. Sodom is a term for the city which is mentioned in the Abrahamic religions. The stage is divided into two front and back sections with semi-transparent plastic. In the performance, actresses are behind a semi-transparent plastic curtain. The music piece “Air Johann Sebastien Bach” is playing. There are two mirrors, one on the right and one on the left, facing each other in the front section of the stage. Behind the plastic, they are hunching slowly and rigidly. Each of these persons has specific clothing, color, and distinguished movement characteristics. In the front section of the stage, on the right, a barefoot woman with a brightly colored dress, EVE, is standing in front of the mirror. She moves fluidly without changing her coordination. This fluid movement is, in fact, the beginning of the gradual formation of the main body posture throughout the performance. Throughout the performance, people of Sodom enter the front stage one by one, where Eve is dancing, and give her their own colorful gift which was attached to their bent and deformed body. Eve is mesmerized by the gifts, but she feels bad each time they apply something on her body causing her fluid movement to be rigid and her body deformed. In the end, she gets shattered after seeing herself in total contrast from the first time she sees herself in the right mirror holds a transparent cube in front of her teary clown-like face and looking at the audience. Finally, she migrates to Sodom, we see everyone moving slowly with deformed bodies behind the plastic curtain with their new member, EVE.
The first image that initiated the writing process was the deformed bodies hunching behind a semi-transparent plastic curtain. This imagery became more and more dominant in the other works later on.
I created each of the characters behind the curtain along with my daily interactions with people in the streets, taxis, shops, and…. I could feel how the imaginary Eve became one of the citizens of Sodom.
