(Hacettepe Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi, 2015) Koçer Çamurdan, Suncem
In what ways does documentary camera with its unique capacity to disentangle reality penetrate and
reconstruct history? At the intersections of history and memory and of family and self, how do
documentary narratives crafted through the pursuit of personal life stories, longed family members, and
childhood recollections contest hegemonic ideologies about identity? This article focuses on I Flew You
Stayed (2012) by Mizgin Müjde Arslan as a reflexive narrative of tracing longed family members and
occult life stories. As Arslan searches for her family history to fill out painful gaps in her life journey
through documentary practice, she ends up uncovering a restless history construed by ideologies that
silence counter-hegemonic voices in unique ways.