New Publications!

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...

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Workshop: 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...

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Communication Activity: Film Screening at Sehsüchte International Film Festival!

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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Dissemination 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...

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Cinema 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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Workshop 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...

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Communication 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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Dissemination 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...

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Research 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...

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First 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.    ...

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Activating 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...

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International 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...

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