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...
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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...
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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,...
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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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I presented my research findings at the Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice: Videography in the Hands of the People conference, held at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 5 to 7 Octobre 2022. The presentation, which was titled ” Video Activism in Exile: An Ethnographic Study ” , concentrated on the ways in which exile...
...READ MOREDissemination Activity: Fourth Paper Presentation for VIDEOACT Completed
Şirin presented her paper “Experiences of Migration from Turkey to Germany: The Female Guest Worker in Contemporary Documentaries” on a panel titled “Claiming History through the Voices of Women: Documentary and Archival Practices by Women in Turkey” at the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference, held in Gdansk from 10 to 14 August, 2022. The presentation explored two documentaries...
...READ MOREResearch Dissemination: Conference Program for Visible Evidence Announced!
The program for the XXVIII Visible Evidence Conference 2022 has been announced! The conference, which will be held in Gdansk, Poland, on 10-14 August 2022 will be the fourth conference presentation for the project VIDEOACT. The conference’s theme this year is “Images of History” and Şirin will be presenting a paper called “Experiences of...
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Şirin presented her paper “Playful Activism of Online Mash-up Videos: Political Critique through Satire” on a panel focusing on Online Activism at the NECS conference, this year held in Bucharest from 22 to 26 June, 2022. The presentation explored the political mash-up videos of Barbar and how satire is employed to put forward a...
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The third presentation for the project VIDEOACT will take place at the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, taking place 22-26 June 2022 in Bucharest, Romania. Şirin’s presentation is titled “Playful Activism of Online Mash-Up Videos: Political Critique through Satire”, and will examine the online political mash-up videos of a new wave migrant from...
...READ MORECommunication Activity: Panel Workshop “Claiming History: Activism through Digital Video Archiving”
The Claiming History: Activism through Digital Video Archiving panel workshop took place at the HAU am Ufer in Berlin on 20 May 2022. It was part of the Re/assembling Antiracist Struggles Assembly. How can we collect recorded moments of oppression and resistance, provide them with context and an identity, and use them as a resource...
...READ MOREResearch Dissemination: Outlawed Images Conference Program Announced!
The program of the Cinematographic and Audiovisual Alternatives: Outlawed Images Conference (Colloque Alternatives cinématographiques et audiovisuelles: Images Hors-la-loi) has been announced. The conference will take place between 1-3 June 2022 in Nice, France. The conference language will be in French. I will present work related to VIDEOACT’s context – the tightening grip on film...
...READ MOREEvent: Collect, Archive and Activate Anti-Racist Struggles
A panel entitled Claiming History: Activism through Digital Video Archiving will be held at the Hau Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin in the context of the Re/assembling Antiracist Struggles Assembly. The event to be held on May 20th, 2022, from 15:00-17:00 will host four speakers who will introduce their respective activist video archival projects. Registration is required...
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How does video activism challenge dominant power structures? The latest episode of the podcast Dritte Klappe looks at the use of video as an activist tool by practitioners from Turkey who moved to Germany after the Gezi Park protests. Dr. Şirin Fulya Erensoy, Marie Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF since September...
...READ MOREFirst conference presentation of VIDEOACT completed
Şirin presented the initial findings and observations of her fieldwork for VIDEOACT at the international online conference “Activating Attention: Political Videos on Social Media”, which took place on 20-21 January 2022. Şirin’s panel titled “Videos in Current Protests Movements” included scholars and activists working on protests movements in Syria, Belarus and Palestine. ...
...READ MOREActivating Attention Conference Schedule Announced!
The schedule for the Activating Attention – Political Videos on Social Media International Online Conference to be held 20-21 January 2022 has been announced! The conference is organized by the research project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web,” Germany, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation: Jens Eder (Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF), Tobias...
...READ MOREInternational Online Conference: “Activating Attention – Political Videos on Social Media” / January 20 & 21, 2022
Image Credits: Tom Hilton (licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en); Original File: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SFO_Protest_(31755404714). Speakers: Tina Askanius, Marcus Bösch, Yves Citton, Tom Divon, Şirin Erensoy, Aslı Kotaman, Sandra Ristovska, Sophija Savtchouk, Kerstin Schankweiler, Josepha Wessels, and others. The conference is organized by the research project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on...
...READ MORETwo Fellows from Turkey at the Film University
Two Fellows from Turkey at the Film University (in German)......
...READ MORE2021 European Researchers’ Night
Şirin participated in the 2021 European Researchers’ Night, held Europe-wide on November 24, 2021. The European Researchers’ Night is a Europe-wide public event, which displays the diversity of science and its impact on citizens’ daily lives in fun, inspiring ways. Şirin was part of a speed searching event which entailed meeting different groups of...
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