4/13/23: Virtual Talks with Video Activists: Resistance Videos from Turkey

Screening/discussion of protest videos from Turkey, featuring Guliz Saglam and Florencia Incarbone.

Join us for a screening and discussion of protest videos from Turkey and hear from filmmakers and activists working on the ground to support human rights.

This program includes works by Guliz Saglam that address pressing issues such as justice, equality, and freedom, regarding the feminist movement and the struggle of LGBTQIA+ and women in contemporary Turkey. The future, the building of a community, and the possibility to rise up against capitalist patriarchy are key topics that resonate in the videos.

Guliz Saglam is an independent documentary filmmaker and a feminist video-activist. Her work consists of independent documentaries on various issues including immigration, women workers’ strikes and resistance in different parts of Turkey, as well as solidarity campaigns of women’s organizations with women workers’ resistance movements and the encounter of feminists with women labor and peace activism of women. She documents the campaigns and demonstrations of feminist movement’s and women’s initiative for peace. She is involved in the organization of Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days, Which Human Rights Film Festival, and EurasiaDoc Turkey Documentary Scriptwriting Workshop. She takes part in different video-activism collectives. Her films have been internationally screened in various film festivals. Her first feature documentary film ‘A Dream School in the Steppes’ has received many awards including, Best Documentary Award of 47th Film Critics Association of Turkey, 9th Boston Turkish Documentary and Short Film Competition and 7th Documentarist Istanbul Documentary Days FIPRESCI Award.

Florencia Incarbone holds a degree in Cinematography from the Universidad del Cine (Buenos Aires, Argentina). She is a curator and editor of Hambre, a platform dedicated to the research and promotion of experimental cinema and video. Within the framework of this project, she edited the books The radicality of the image. Overflowing Latin American latitudes (2016) and Migrant Thoughts. Cinematographic intersections (2020). She works in the production and programming of experimental film and video exhibitions such as: Exhibition of Euro-American Film and Digital Video, Realisms of Precarity – Itinerant Latin American Film Exhibit, Biennial of the Moving Image, Istanbul International Experimental Film Festival. Her development in the field of audiovisual curatorship in festivals, museums, and cultural institutions proposes to highlight and reflect on the aesthetic singularity of experimental cinema from a transversal approach by making crossings with literature, painting, philosophy, politics, and science. Currently she is the Editorial Coordinator of the Museum of the University Tres de Febrero (Argentina) and BIENALSUR (International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South).

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