Guney Y. Brusk

I've recently gradutated from Rutgers Univesity, with concentrations on Urban Studies and Media Arts. I am fascinated by and greatly enjoying both fields of studies. Aspiring to combine these two fields at practical levels by using arts in community empowerment and development. Besides seeing great creative and progressive socio-political potential in documentary filmmaking, I am also interested in making short and feature narrative films.

Since urban planning is essentially conncerned with the issues of human ecology (mainly built environments such as metropolises, cities, towns, suburbs, etc.), I believe that almost all, if not all, aspects of urban planning can be converged at the focal point of community development.

Transportation is another area that I find very intersting and important for the nature and shape of societies.

Since the use of oil as the primary energy source by the beginnings of the last century, oil and automotive industries have played major roles in the formation and characteristics of environments that we have built for ourselves. They were also key players in the economic and political decisions (such as wars) that have had direct impacts on people throughout the world.

In this regard, I am keen to explore alternative ways of transportation and building cities. I consider cities as the most important feature of human ecology, holding the only viable potentials and possibilities for humanity's future.

Three of my recent projects are: 1. Creating a website to explore the different aspects of bicycle libraries, 2. Making a documentary about an immigrant workers confederation in Europe, 3. Making a documentary on the links of oil and automotive industries to suburbanization and car culture in the US since especially the 1950s.