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belit sağ
A historic moment in Turkey’s parliament in 1991: Kurdish MP Leyla Zana declares in Kurdish: »I take this oath for the sisterhood between the Turkish and Kurdish people«, and she is subsequently jailed for ten years. The structural discrimination and persecution perpetrated against Kurdish people and other minorities as well as censored historical film footage form the departure point for the film.
Guests: belit sağ and Cana Bilir-Meier
belit sağ
belit sağ is a visual artist whose recent work focuses on the violence of images and images of violence. She studied Mathematics in Ankara and Audiovisual Arts in Amsterdam. Her video background is rooted in video-activist groups in Ankara and Istanbul. Her work has been presented all over the world, including at MOCA, Taipei, documenta14, Kassel, the film festivals of Toronto, Rotterdam, San Francisco and New York, IDFA and EYE Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Tütün Deposu, Istanbul, Marabouparken, Stockholm, and Flaherty Film Seminar NYC.
