Invigorating untold pasts through film: Kurdish post-migrant filmmaking in Germany
Screening and Film Talk
Özgür Çiçek, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.
Q&A with Iain Robert Smith, KCL Film Studies
This screening and film talk draws on Özgür Çiçek’s current research on Kurdish cinema: a transnational cinema produced from multiple locations, including Europe, Turkey, Iran, Rojava, and Iraqi Kurdistan. The event focuses on Kurdish filmmaking in Germany, using Kurdish-German filmmaker Ayşe Polat’s documentary The Others (2016) to explore questions of Kurdish history and memory on film. The Others is a critical documentary on memories of the Armenian past in Turkish Kurdistan; it explores Armenian heritage in Kurdistan in scenes of treasure-hunting that evoke the historical curiosity triggered by found objects. The screening is followed by a short paper by Özgür Çiçek (Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz) and a Q&A with Iain Robert Smith (KCL Film Studies).
Özgür Çiçek is a film scholar and researcher based in Berlin. Currently she is a postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz. She received her Ph.D. in Philosophy, Interpretation and Culture from Binghamton University, NY. Her research interests include national/transnational cinemas, minor cinemas, migrant cinemas, memory studies, and documentary filmmaking. More information on her publications and research interests can be reached at: www.ozgurcicek.de
This event is part of the Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures research seminar series, presented in association with the KCL Centre for Transnational German Relations. Tickets available via Eventbrite in the link below.
WHEN: May 4 2023, 3:00-5:30PM
WHERE: Bush House Lecture Theatre 1, King’s College London
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