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My Story so far
Filmmaker
Producer
I live at the intersection of "why not?" and "what if?"
& Futurist

My Playground in 2025  

Digital storytelling: Making audiences feel seen while everyone else is just trying to be noticed. In 2025, I'll be developing frameworks that help brands create authentic narratives in an increasingly AI-saturated content landscape.

Video production: 500+ videos produced in the last 10 years, besides my weekly Youtube Channel, that taught me the fine art of herding creative cats while meeting impossible deadlines. In 2025, I'm scaling this expertise and directing a longer documentary and an experimental short film.

Soccer coaching: Where I channel my inner Ted Lasso in the German 7th League without the mustache (though the philosophical pep talks remain) but with a international UEFA B-License - coming in summer 25.

Podcast host: Cut my teeth on two shows (one decoding Web3, another unpacking the post-migrant life in Germany). In 2025 now I am launching a third that tackles how AI is reshaping work, education, technology, and society while we're all still adjusting to smartphones

AI exploration: Creating tools that make humans more creative, not less necessary—this isn't just a stance, it's practically tattooed on my decision-making process. Also spending late nights writing impulse papers on AI and the new work paradigm because someone has to worry about the robots before they worry about us.
I even recently wrote a 30- Page Paper about it.

Civic engagement: Finding my voice in an increasingly polarized landscape—because watching from the sidelines is no longer an option.

My Story so far   

I work hard, learn quickly and build bridges while others are still drawing blueprints. Between stories that need telling and the people starving to hear them. Between cold technology and warm, messy humanity. Between the Turkey I left and the global citizen I've become.

My approach

01 Embrace the beautiful disaster. If your creative process doesn't occasionally make you question your life choices, you're probably not pushing hard enough. The magic happens in the middle of the mess.

02 Obsess over the invisible. While everyone's admiring the paint job, I'm checking the foundation. The details nobody notices are precisely why the whole thing works. Respect the craft.

03 Stories are the ultimate survivors. With CLOCKKNOCK GmbH, I've watched narratives shape-shift across platforms without losing their soul. The medium evolves; the goosebumps remain timeless.

04 Play the long game. Life is short. While everyone's doomscrolling through AI apocalypses, right-wing uprisings, and geopolitical chess matches, I'm squinting at the horizon. The breaking news won't break me—I'd rather map the next 12 months out.

Experience snapshots

Studio founder: Built CLOCKKNOCK GmbH from scratch with equal parts vision, stubbornness, and hard work.

Production visionary: Leading EXOSOLAR FILMS to arm-wrestle the future of film.

Web3 pioneer: Created Germany's first NFT Launchpad while everyone else was still trying to explain crypto to their parents in 2020. Launched a Hacker NFT collection. All of it failed. I learned so much which I shared on Medium. In hindsight: NFTs became a Dystopia. But that's another story.

AI strategist: Implementing systems that make clients say "wait, how did you do that?" (The secret: super early adopter, lots of reading, experiments and not enough sleep)

The deeper layers

Reluctant immigrant: Left Turkey with my parents at four during the 1980s Military Junta with one suitcase (really just one!) and approximately 700 questions to my mother in the bus from Istanbul to Geneva and in the train from Geneva to Germany.

Film obsessive: Watched 98 films in 2024 - Letterboxed them all - but my friends watch twice as much.

Current brain food: Still digesting my last read "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions: 50th Anniversary Edition". Currently reading a lot about becoming a dad.

Accidental academic: Class of 2010 with Master's in Theater, Film, English Literature, and Politics from the University of Cologne.

Serial scholarship collector: Recipient of funds from Social Impact Lab from SAP, Mediengründerzentrum , Neuköllner Oper among a few others.

Other Explorations: Did theatre acting & directing in my 20s, lived on a mountain for three months, traveled to six continents, took countless photographs, briefly tortured a saxophone, and still dream of living in Tokyo and New York.

Let's make trouble together.

If you believe stories can change minds while algorithms merely change behaviors, we should talk. About film. About technology. About how the future will look like.

Oh, and about why I call myself a "futurist" instead of just an "early adopter"? Because anyone can buy the newest gadget—but it takes a special kind of delusion to wake up every morning convinced you can actually see what's coming. My track record is just good enough to keep the self-doubt at bay, but spotty enough that my friends never let me pick lottery numbers.

The coffee is on me.
The conversation's on you.
TL'DR, SEND ME AN EMAIL FOR A SUMMARY:  HI (AT) CEMTEKIN.DE
OR Visit my AGENCY: CLOCKKNOCK GmbH