9/8fight41: a 9/8 fight for all of us
Director: Gizem Aksu
Cast: Sema Semih, Gizem Nalbant, Banu Açıkdeniz
Turkey, 2022, HD, color, 29’
This documentary short dance film is based on Gizem Aksu's spectral friendship with Sinti-Roma boxing legend of Germany, Johann Rukeli Trollmann (1907-1944) and the inter-generational and inter-geographical journey of this friendship. Rukeli Trollmann was exposed to many forms of discrimination by the Nazi regime because of "boxing by dancing like Gypsy" and was murdered in the Wittenberge Concentration Camp. Inspired by the fight of Rukeli Trollmann, the film traces the artist's experience of immigration to Berlin and the fight for justice in Istanbul.
There Is Nothing Called Home
Director: Nur Özkaya
Cast: Aleyna Pişiren, Perihan Özkaya
Turkey, 2022, HD, color, 4’
The story of a person who is stuck with the concept of home and attaches a lot of meaning to small things, choosing herself as a weapon at a Russian roulette table and the battle of her inner roulette.
No One Would Go
Director: Tuğba Baykal
Turkey, 2022, HD, color, 39’
No One Would Go is a documentary about psychiatric and psychological "treatments" including physical interventions aimed at "curing" LGBTI+s in Turkey, and the experiences of LGBTI+s who have been exposed to these methods.
The Greek god Apollo and his son Asklepios presided over the realm of medicine and healing. Apollo was also the god of light and sun, whose solar symbolism and association with medicine would become linked to Christ the Physician, and the resurrected.
The Vanity of Small Differences is a series of six large scale tapestries, completed in 2012, which explore British fascination with taste and class, and can be seen in the Grayson Perry: Small Differences exhibition.
Our institutions have been stuck on linear Neo-Platonic tracks for 24 centuries. These antiquated processes of deduction have lost their authority. Just like art it has fallen off its pedestal. Legal, educational and constitutional systems rigidly subscribe to these; they are 100% text based.
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