When Hay was seven years old, he found a dead horse in an open field and watched his father and other adults struggle to get rid of it. Unsure of this memory, this incident has had a great impact on him and, when he cuts himself during a sacrificial rite, everything comes flashing back. Step by step, Hay goes down an inevitable and spiritual path where he confronts the relationship between human and nature, the unity of matter and the living.
Dead Horse Nebula
Dead Horse Nebula
59th TIFF: Greek Premiere

Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Tarık Aktaş
- Script: Tarık Aktaş
- Cinematography: Necmettin Akdeniz
- Editing: Osman Bayraktaroğlu
- Sound: Barkın Engin
- Music: Hayvanlar Alemi
- Actors: Barış Mert Bilgi, Ali Yavuz Ilman, Ömer Bora, Serkan Aydın, Serkan Özsalgıncı, Hasan Türker, Dilara Topuklular
- Production: Hay Film
- Producers: Güneş Şekeroğlu
- Co-production: Arizona Films
- Co-producers: Guillaume De Seille
- Executive producer: Barış Yıldırım
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: Turkey
- Production Year: 2018
- Duration: 73΄
- Contact: Hay Film, gunes@hay-film.com
- Awards/Distinctions: Best Emerging Director – Filmmakers of the Present, Locarno IFF 2018
Tarık Aktaş
Born in Germany, Tarık Aktaş lives and works in Istanbul. He signed several short films including Brothel of Subconscious (2006) and Video of Circumcision (2007). His latest experimental video, Basiret (2017), is a part of his upcoming multimedia exhibition “Supersensible.” Dead Horse Nebula is his first feature film.
Filmography
2006 Bilinçaltı Genelevi | Brothel of Subconsciousness (short)
2007 A Video of Circumcision (short)
2017 Basiret (short)
2018 Dead Horse Nebula
2007 A Video of Circumcision (short)
2017 Basiret (short)
2018 Dead Horse Nebula