Phases of Matter follows living and inanimate residents of a teaching hospital in Istanbul, Cerrahpaşa, moving from the operating room to the morgue, between life and other states, the real and the virtual. 

"Had Frederick Wiseman’s “Hospital” (1970) wandered into Lars von Trier’s “The Kingdom” (1994-2022) the unlikely result might have resembled Deniz Tortum’s haunting and hypnotic “Phases of Matter” (2020)" - Peter Keough, Boston Globe