ALTYAZI FASİKÜL
https://fasikul.altyazi.net/
ALTYAZI FASİKÜL
https://fasikul.altyazi.net/
A project of Altyazı Cinema Association, Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema is a platform that focuses on freedom of expression in cinema. Altyazı Fasikül’s main purpose is to increase the visibility of the works of video and film creators who face risks of government repression and censorship. It aims to strengthen the role and position of independent cinema as a critical force in the cultural politics of Turkey. I am one of co-founders of Altyazı Fasikül and still contributing in the Advisory Board.
ALTYAZI FASİKÜL VIDEO SERIES
‘Looking Outside’ is a video series developed, curated and realised in 2020 in the midst of the pandemic by Senem Aytaç and Fırat Yücel.
The idea for the project was came out as a reaction to and an urgent call for collective contemplation on the isolating effects of the lockdown during the pandemic.
It was an invitation to video-activists, documentary filmmakers, artists and academics to produce videos that reflect on the ‘outside’ during times of lockdown.
During the pandemic, working closely with artists, video-makers and video-activists, mentoring them in their creative works and forming a compilation of 11 short films as a
video series and realizing talks with the creators after the screenings via
our magazine Altyazı’s Youtube channel.
The project has been realised with the support of European Endowment For Democracy.
As a continuation of our first curated video series Looking
Outside which was favourably received, we decided to design a second one, this time focusing on the nature of recording itself.
From Below is series of 10 videos that contemplate the
importance of recording, witnessing, creating a collective
memory, intervening, chronicling, remembering, and reminding through audio-visual tools; and will do so by using these audio- visual tools themselves.
This project has been realised with the support of European
Endowment For Democracy and CultureCIVIC.