Hi, I’m Melih Sarıgöl, a Berlin-based sound engineer, electronic musician, and multimedia artist with a passion for creating immersive sonic landscapes and sound design for film and live performances. With a strong foundation in acoustics, mechanical engineering, and sound engineering design, I specialize in crafting unique audio experiences that tell compelling stories.
Since moving to Berlin in 2017, I’ve had the opportunity to collaborate on international film, video, and music projects, showcased at esteemed festivals like Berlinale, Rencontres Internationales Paris, and Oberhausen. I also enjoy exploring experimental electronic music and visual art, continuously pushing boundaries in the interdisciplinary arts space.
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You lose your father just once and this never happens again.
But as the years go by, the time repeats itself and your memories overlap.
40 year old Ethem remembers his past. We never see him as he is now but the whole film is actually a recollection of his memories from his childhood and early youth.
He lives in the 90’s Izmir with his father Melih, his mother Zeynep and his little brother Suphi. He is a boy with strong senses, who has an appetite for learning and knowing his environment. He’s kind to his beloved ones and has a special connection with all beings. He is friends with his brother, a hedgehog, the mountains and the sea.
Moments from three distinct periods of his life are told in an elliptic, non-chronological manner: when he was 7, 13 and 17.
We follow the change in his character and the way he grew up to become an adult.
All these moments, these fleeting fragments of memory condense into two events:
When he is 17, he runs away from home and spends a night out. This is when he learns to love his burden.
And when he is 11 his father dies. This is when he has to grasp his own life.
Because you lose your father just once.
But it’s for a lifetime.
The post-apocalyptic landscapes gouged out of the ground by lignite mining have burned themselves into collective memory in recent months. In the film installation ›VOID‹, which was created in the Welzow-Süd open-cast lignite mine in Niederlausitz, Senem Gökçe Oğultekin and Levent Duran let the landscape itself become the protagonist of an experiment in perception. 17 people spend ten days there. In silence, they listen to this extraordinary place and search for an immediate connection. In front of the camera, they express this through their voices, their physical presence in an environment that has essentially long been alienated from the body and is beyond human scale. The camera does not intervene with their actions but simply allows time and space for existence.
In the film installation ›VOID‹, which can be seen as a special preview at PACT, the landscape is at work. We listen to it and let it take its effect. In search of way of accessing the wider world, ›VOID‹ focuses on the interaction of voice and body with matter and environment. Humans and nature are inextricably linked and their mutual dependence palpable.
Three friends go on an excursion to an empty field for the night, away from the city, for a candid discussion about their worries, trying to awake from the nightmare called history.
Reyhan, a 40-year-old woman who has lost her sense of smell, one day decides to change her life into something new. She vanishes without notice only to find her true self again.
The genocide at Srebrenica unfolds under the guardianship of the UN, as the world’s leading diplomats and military experts are unwilling to intervene.
The sun rises on a Sunday morning in Berlin. On her way home, Derin finds herself thinking about what she left behind. She remembers why and how she moved abroad.
SOMEWHERE IN TURKEY, THERE IS A TINY TV-STATION CALLED KANAL 82. ITS ALL-FEMALE CREW SPECIALIZES IN FORTUNE TELLING SHOWS, LOCAL GOSSIP AND INTERNAL QUARRELS. BUT WHEN A BROADCAST ON TURKEY’S ALMIGHTY LEADER GOES HAYWIRE, THE TRASHY CHANNEL ALL OF A SUDDEN BECOMES THE TARGET OF NATIONALIST BULLIES - AND AN UNLIKELY NEW HOPE FOR THE LIBERAL OPPOSITION. IN SEVEN EPISODES, KANAL 82 TELLS THE STORY OF SEVEN WOMEN AND THEIR FIGHT FOR THE RIGHT TO MAKE CRAPPY TV. WHETHER THE AUTHORITIES LIKE IT OR NOT.
An old habit of a young women, laughing when nervous, causes the person who knows her best, her mother, to find out she is not a virgin any more. Now it’s the loving, caring mother - daughter relationship that is virgin no more…
‘Istanbul Makami’ is a cinematographic improvisation with 5 musicians from abroad who fall in love with the Maqam Music (Classical Ottoman Music) and decide to live in Turkey believing that music might best be learned in the lands it was born and performed. Each has different stories but the desire to find their own path despite modern times’ obligations intersects their roads. Constructing three layers -music, Istanbul and combination of both in the filmic platform- the film is a modern times fairytale in praise of Istanbul and its classical music; a film about obstinacy, desire, looking for one’s own raison d’etre, travelling, being a world citizen and the power of music to understand the other and express oneself in the pursuit of intertwining stories following passion. It tells unique stories about the common dreams we are afraid to approach, and thus, tries to give inspiration to us to free ourselves.
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