Make sure to check out two new publications, relating to VIDEOACT: Experiences of Migration from Turkey in Germany: The Female Guest Worker in Contemporary Documentaries, in Studies in Documentary Film, available open access! https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17503280.2023.2253574 “‘Why Can’t I Walk in My Own Country?’: LGBTI+ Community’s Visual Activism in Turkey”, in Radical Film, Art and Digital...
...READ MOREWorkshop: Activism, Empowerment and Change: Exploring Audio-Visual Medias, Hive International Short Film Days, September 2023, Berlin
It was an absolute delight to give this workshop in the context of the Hive International Short Film Days. The workshop delved into audio-visual media’s historical and contemporary use for political activism. From early film history to today’s protest movements, filmmakers have employed audio-visuality to convey political messages. The workshop examined the role of activist videos...
...READ MORECommunication Activity: Screening at the Beyond Home Exhibition
The screening of KÖY by Serpil Turhan was realized in the context of the Beyond Home exhibition at the Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien. A Q&A session was followed by the screening of the film with the director Serpil Turjan, moderated by filmmaker, scholar and film curator Viola Shafik. The conversation encompassed topics such as imaginary homes, belonging...
...READ MOREDissemination Activity: New Directions in Turkish Film Studies
Research from the VIDEOACT project was presented in the context of the annual Turkish Film Studies conference held at Kadir Has University, Istanbul. The theme of this year’s conference was “Women”; as a result, a gendered perspective was foregrounded in relation to the research results. Şirin provided a feminist analysis of documentary films made...
...READ MOREGezi – 10 Years Later Press Conference
The team for the Gezi – 10 Years Later held a press conference on 16.05.2023 at the Gorki Café, presenting the program. All the curators were present and introduced their sections to the press. Photo is from the press conference. The event series is curated by Shermin Langoff and Erden Kosova. The section curators...
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VIDEOACT is proud to collaborate with the Maxim Gorki Theatre in the context of the event series Gezi – 10 Years Later. The Gorki Theatre is presenting a series of events in honor of the 10th anniversary of the Gezi Park Protests. Şirin and her co-curator Necati Sönmez have prepared a documentary film series under...
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Moments from the 52. Sehsuechte International Student Film Festival, where I held the screening Allegories from Turkey: Political Discourse through Cinema with filmmaker Emre Birişmen. Thank you to the festival and Waschhaus Potsdam for hosting us! Photo Credits: Frederik Lorenz...
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The screening program Allegories from Turkey: Political Discourse through Cinema will take place on Friday, April 21, at 19:30 at the Waschhaus/Kino 2 in Potsdam. The screening program is part of Europe’s largest international student film festival, the Sehsüchte International Film Festival and will showcase four short films made by Emre Birişmen. Emre Birişmen’s cinema...
...READ MOREDissemination Activity: Queer Media Activism in Exile.
Şirin presented part of her research results at the MariCorners International Interdisciplinary Queer Studies conference. During the panel “Leaving the Circle: LGBT representation and resistance in Turkey”, Şirin looked at how LGBT individuals from Turkey based in Berlin use audio-visual practices such as music videos, documentaries and online news to create visibility for LGBT and...
...READ MORECinema of Commoning Blog Post: Tactics for a Transnational Archive
For the latest of #CinemaofCommoning blog post, writer and curator Rachel Pronger reflects on TACTICS FOR A TRANSNATIONAL ARCHIVE, a weekend of workshops exploring transnational archiving and creative practice that took place earlier this year. The sessions were organized by artist Beth Hughes who invited four experts — filmmaker Nnenna Onuoha, artist Dominique Hurth,...
...READ MOREWorkshop KIRAATHANE: Tactics for a Transnational Archive | SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA
In January 2023, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, the cinema project by bi’bak, re-opens its doors at a newly renovated space in Berlin-Wedding. A physical hub that brings together film and video culture, arts, education, conversation and community, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA explores transnational society through screenings, symposia and exhibitions. Over the years, bi’bak has built up an archive...
...READ MORECommunication Activity: Panel Workshop: Claiming History: Activism through Digital Video Archiving
Telling our own stories through images, recordings and videos, has never been easier. Anyone with a smartphone is now able to share their account of events and counter mainstream media narratives, which too often silence the voices that challenge its ideological positioning. In a fast-paced digital world, a video shared on twitter might...
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