And the Image Gazes Back: Short Film Programme by belit sağ curated by Cana Bilir-Meier
Film artist Cana Bilir-Meier dedicates this programme to the artist belit sağ. With her films, sağ pursues a media archaeology of the power of images. In her short films she asks many questions: Can an image capture a soul? Can I surveil someone by capturing his/her image? Is censorship something that affects my practice of speaking? Through these questions, sağ thinks about the images she produces about the impact of images, namely images of conflict or images of violence. Images can be images of violence, but they can also become an extension of the same violence.
Guests: belit sağ and Cana Bilir-Meier
past forward
belit sağ
A historic moment in Turkey’s parliament in 1991: Kurdish MP Leyla Zana declares in Kurdish: »I take this oath for […]
Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre
belit sağ
Cizre is a town in northern Kurdistan, inside Turkey’s borders with Syria. Cizre was under curfew from 4 to 14 […]
what remains
belit sağ
what remains looks at the question of what remains after the war. Again, footage from the Kurdish city of Cizre, […]
Ayhan and me
belit sağ
The film tells the story of Ayhan Çarkın, a leading member of a death squad responsible for the murder of […]
my camera seems to recognize people
belit sağ
What happens when we engage in a dialogue with the images we create and question them about their motives? What […]
and the image gazes back
belit sağ
An essayistic reflection on image production: from the first tentative black-and-white shots of a human being to present-day image politicisation. […]
if you say it forty times…
belit sağ
Former Turkish police officer Ayhan Çarkin used to be part of an unofficial paramilitary wing of the Turkish security forces […]
Şifa (Hümeyra, Rangin, Maral)
belit sağ
The film shows migrant women from Turkey living in the Netherlands. Hümeyra, Rengin and Maral selected songs that accompanied them […]
cut-out
belit sağ
The video provides a look at the photos in the police files of the victims of the National Socialist Underground […]
An-sisters
belit sağ
A glimpse into the future: We conclude this programme with a film that the artist is currently working on: a […]
