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Letisya Tapan is a filmmaker and visual anthropologist working across documentary, experimental film, and material storytelling. Her work explores memory, displacement, and embodied knowledge through layered, poetic forms.

She contributed to the Türkiye Pavilion at the 2025 Venice Architecture Biennale with two video works under the theme Grounded Futures: ReYard, documenting Team Bosphorus’s Solar Decathlon journey, and a material-focused collaboration with Atelier FY on ecological construction and earth as archive.

She is currently completing her MA in Visual and Media Anthropology at Media University, on infrastructure, myth, and the agency of soil.

Her recent documentary Between Two Voids (2025), finalist at Antalya Film Forum, follows the artist Nancy Atakan through themes of belonging and cultural hybridity. Letisya is also the founder of Reparatur, a Berlin-based concept shop for ethical second-hand fashion and narrative through objects. She continues to develop new work at the intersection of anthropology, cinema, and material practice.

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Freelance Work

Director

Between Two Voids (2025) (feature length documentary)
Producer/ Costume designer

I Am Here, I Am Fine (2025 (feature length film)

Founder
Reparatur (2021) (sustainable shop concept based in Berlin)
Director
Missed the party (2021) (video essay)
Director
Please Do Not Murder Your Darlings (2021)(short film)
Producer/ Art director
Delikler (2020) (Short film)
Fashion Journalist
Istanbul Art News, Chronicle (monthly arts and culture newspaper)
Art Director
Madebycat Digital Agency Istanbul, Turkey.
Stylist
Dukkan Publishing & Creative Agency, ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, Vogue, Istanbul, Turkey

Coorporate Work

Managing Partner
ENPA Foreign Trade (2009_Present)
Istanbul, Turkey
(National distributor of imported beauty brands representing 18 premium and
niche brands /3800 SKUs)
Managed a team of 35 employees in preparing and executing strategic short and
long-term plans for the company.
Created effective working methods.
Increased revenue by 3 x during tenure.

Project Coordinator, Merchandiser
Unitim (2008- 2009) Istanbul, Turkey
(mother company of Harvey Nichols, Ralph Lauren, Naked multi brand shops)

Junior Market Editor, Assistant Buyer
Vivre (2006-2008) New YORK, NY
(www.vivre.com + direct mail catalogue)

Education

M.A.: Visual and Media Anthropology 2024 HMKW Berlin, Germany

Certification: Buying and Merchandising 2017
The Business of Fashion Online

M.F.A: Visual Communication Design 2014 (course work completed thesis not submitted)
Bilgi University Istanbul, Turkey
G.P.A. 3.6/ 4.0
Recipient of %50 Scholarship

Bachelor of Arts: Economics 2006
New York University New York, NY
Minor in Italian
Liberal Arts coursework, Film making coursework from Tisch School Of The Arts

Photographer

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