GeZinema Q&A Transcripts:

Şirin Fulya Erensoy. (2023). “Gezinema World Cinema Documentaries, Q&A Session I: Rüzgâr Buşki.” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8199945

— (2023). “Gezinema World Cinema Documentaries, Q&A Session II: Senem Aytaç, Mert Kaya.” Zenodohttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8200005

—. (2023). “Gezinema World Cinema Documentaries, Q&A Session III: Marlon Miguel.” Zenodohttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8200022

— (2023). “Gezinema World Cinema Documentaries, Q&A Session IV: Gamze Elvan.” Zenodo.https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8211567

— (2023). “Gezinema World Cinema Documentaries, Q&A Session V: Patricio Guzmán & Lena Ulbricht.” Zenodohttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8215388

— (2023). “Gezinema World Cinema Documentaries, Q&A Session VI: Noel Keserwany” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8219991 

— (2023). “Gezinema World Cinema Documentaries, Q&A Session VII: Ayşe Çavdar & Diren Demir.” Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8238568

 

Project Publications:

“From Gezi to Berlin: A Personal Journey through Video Activism.” Filmuni Proudly Presents #03: Forschungs- und Transferbericht der Filmuniversität Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF 2022/23 (Research and Transfer Report of the Film University Babelsberg KONRAD WOLF 2022/23). (2023): 78-79. To read essay, please Zenodo: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10404101 

Sirin Fulya Erensoy (2023) Experiences of migration from Turkey to Germany: the female guest worker in contemporary documentaries, Studies in Documentary Film, DOI: 10.1080/17503280.2023.2253574

 

Related Publications: 

‘Berlin’s Killjoys: Feminist Art from the Global South’, in Displacing Theory Through the Global South, ed. by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, Cultural Inquiry, 29 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2024), pp. 43–55 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-29_04

“‘Why Can’t I Walk in My Own Country?’: LGBTI+ Community’s Visual Activism in Turkey”, in Radical Film, Art and Digital Media for Societies in Turmoil, edited by Ursula Böckler, Julia Lazarus & Alexandra Weltz-Rombach. K. Verlag: Berlin (2023): 229-232. Chapter available on Zenodo: https://zenodo.org/records/10049625

“Résistance face à la censure et pratiques créatives des cinéastes kurdes en Turquie”.  Altérnatives Cinématographiques et Audiovisuelles: Images hors-la-loi, coordinated by Michaël Arlotto, Bruno Cailler, Cyril Laverger, Stefano Leoncini, Sophie Raimond, and Christel Taillibert. Cahiers de champs visuels, vol. II, no. 23 (2023): 143-160. L’Harmattan. For open access to my article in the journal, visit: https://zenodo.org/record/7950826

 

Screenings and Q&As:

Köy, directed by Serpil Turhan (2021, Germany). Beyond Home Exhibition, 13 July 2023, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany.

GeZinema – World Cinema Documentaries. Gezi-10 Years After, 26 May – 18 June 2023, Maxim Gorki Theatre, Berlin, Germany. Visit: https://www.gorki.de/en/gezinema

Allegories of Turkey: Navigating Political Discourses Through Cinema. Screening of Emre Birişmen’s Short Films. Sehsüchte International Student Film Festival, 19 April 2023, Waschhaus Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany. Visit: https://sehsuechte.de/programm/allegories-of-turkey-navigating-political-discourse-through-cinema/

 

Workshops:

Claiming History: Activism through Digital Video Archiving, Re/assembling Antiracist Struggles Assembly, 20 May 2022, Hebbel am Ufer, Berlin, Germany. Visit: https://www.hebbel-am-ufer.de/en/archive/re-assembling-antiracist-struggles/

Related Workshops:

Migration and Identity: Feminist Perspectives in Contemporary Turkish-German Documentaries, Political Aesthetics of Recent Turkish-German Cinema organized by Pınar Yıldız at Cinepoetics: Center for Advanced Film Studies, 25-26 January 2024. More info: 

http://www.cinepoetics.fu-berlin.de/en/activities/workshops/2024-01-25-26-ws/index.html

 

Activism, Empowerment and Change: Exploring Audio-Visual Medias, Hive International Short Film Days, 23 September 2023, Flutgraben, Berlin, Germany.

Film University Seminar Presentations:

Feminist video activism, Turkish diaspora in Germany, Freedom of Expression, Visibility and Censorship panel presentation, Summer Symposium for Research Project “Attention Strategies of Video Activism on the Social Web”, 16 July 2021, online.

VIDEOACT Project presentation, Production and Financing Workshop, Scientific/Artistic PhD Program, Film University Babelsberg, 21 April 2022, online.

Video Activism in Exile: An Ethnographic Study, Research Seminar organized by Guido Kirsten and Ursula von Keitz, 23 October 2022, Potsdam.

 

Conference Presentations:

Türkiye’den Almanya’ya Göç Deneyimlerine Belgesel Film Üzerinden Bakış: Kadın Misafir İşçiler, New Direction in Turkish Film Studies, 11-13 May 2023, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey.

Media Activism in Turkey’s Exiled LGBT Community, MariCorners Congreso Internacional de Estudios Interdisciplinares LGTBIQ+, 28-31 March 2023, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain.

 Video Activism in Exile: An Ethnographic Study, Bearing Witness, Seeking Justice: Videography in the Hands of the People, 5-7 Octobre 2022, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA.

Experiences of Migration from Turkey to Germany: The Female Guest Worker in Contemporary Documentaries, XXVIII Visible Evidence 2022: Images of History, 10-14 August 2022, University of Gdańsk, Poland.

Playful Activism of Online Mash-up Videos: Political Critique through Satire, NECS European Network for Cinema and Media Studies: Epistemic Media: Atlas, Archive, Network. 22-26 June 2022, Bucharest, Romania.

Résistance face à la censure et pratiques créatives des cinéastes kurdes en Turquie, Alternatives cinématographiques et audiovisuelles: Images Hors-la-loi, 1-3 June 2022, Nice, France.

New Activist Diaspora from Turkey in Germany: Audio-Visual Production on Integration, Migration and Identity, Activating Attention: Political Videos on Social Media, 20-21 January 2022, Online.