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Film
Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater (2016)
A medium-length documentary edited by Fırat Yücel together with Zeyno Pekünlü on behalf of the Emek Bizim İstanbul Bizim initiative. It is about the struggle against the demolition of the Emek Cinema.
Website (In Turkish)
Link to watch the film (with English subtitles)
Welcome Lenin (2016)
A short documentary directed by Aylin Kuryel together with Begüm Özden Fırat, Ahmet M. Öğüt and Emre Yeksan and edited by Fırat Yücel. A wooden bust of Lenin washes up on Akçakoca beach...
Link to watch the film (with English subtitles)
Only Blockbusters Left Alive (2016)
A medium-length documentary directed by Fırat Yücel with Evrim Kaya, Kaan Müjdeci and Şenay Aydemir. It is about the monopolised film distribution in Turkey.
Link to watch the film (with English subtitles)
Image Acts (2015)
Aylin Kuryel's documentary Image Acts is a 30-minute documentary accompanying her PhD thesis, “Image Acts and Visual Communities: Everyday Nationalism in Contemporary Turkey".
Link to watch the film (with English subtitles)
Thesis link
Ayşegül in Rebellion (2009)
Animation produced by Aylin Kuryel in collaboration with Zeyno Pekünlü. The year 2000, on a sunny morning in Çanakkale, Ayşegül, who leads the national pledge, utters an unexpected word...
Link to watch the film (In Turkish, no subtitles)
Taboo (2008)
A short documentary directed by Aylin Kuryel together with Emrah Irzık. Young people are playing Taboo, but this time the cards have the social, sexual and political taboos of Turkey on them.
Link to watch the film (with English subtitles)
Book, Article, Theory, Audio, Interview
Looking at Shame - Cogito (Yapı Kredi Publications, 2023)
Cogito's dossier "Looking at Shame", edited by Aylin Kuryel, deals with shame as an emotion shaped within social processes.
Magazine (In Turkish)
RedCut collective's conversation with Fırat Yücel (2023)
Fırat Yücel shares his views on independent cinema with RedCut collective.
Interview - Video
Digital Publishing - IV: Charlotte Beradt and the Nightmares of a Nation, 1+1 Express Podcast (2022)
Aylin Kuryel's views on Charlotte Beradt, the inspiration for her film The Balcony and Our Dreams.
Podcast (In Turkish)
From Below (Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema, 2022)
A video series on the concept of surveillance, curated by Fırat Yücel in collaboration with Senem Aytaç.
Videos (with English subtitles)
Moving Concepts (Altyazı, 2022)
Some of the articles written by Fırat Yücel for Altyazı Cinema Magazine's Moving Concepts column.
Articles (In Turkish)
Looking at and with Images: Crowds in Joker, Joker in the Crowd (Routledge, 2021)
Aylin Kuryel's article on the film Joker (Todd Philips, 2019) in the compilation Breaking Down Joker.
Article
Remembering the Crowd: Collective Action During the Pandemic (BAK Utrecht, 2021)
Article written by Aylin Kuryel in collaboration with Begüm Özden Fırat. It can be read in relation to the film, 8 March 2020: A Memoir.
Article
Looking Outside (Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema, 2020)
A series of videos produced during the Covid-19 pandemic, curated by Fırat Yücel together with Senem Aytaç.
Videos (with English subtitles)
Weeping Marx [the spread of a mo(nu)ment, 2020]
A sculpture proposal by Aylin Kuryel inspired by Dušan Makavejev's film Sweet Movie (1974).
Text
"There is Boredom": Essays on Boredom (İletişim Yayınları, 2020)
The collection of essays, edited by Aylin Kuryel, deals with boredom in relation to politicas and art. The book also includes Fırat Yücel's article titled "Dead Times and Slowness in New Turkish Cinema".
Book (In Turkish)
The Destruction of Cinema (Altyazı, 2019)
Fırat Yücel's article on the cinema of Jean-Luc Godard.
Article (In Turkish)
From Hope to Anxiety (1+1 Express, 2020)
Fırat Yücel's article on Yılmaz Güney and Şerif Gören's film Anxiety (1974).
Article (In Turkish)
Being Jewish in Turkey: A Dictionary of Experience (İletişim Yayınları, 2017)
This dictionary, compiled by Aylin Kuryel together with Raşel Meseri, questions the established and dominant meanings of being Jewish in Turkey.
The book (In Turkish)
Interview (In Turkish)
From Cinema to Squares (Altyazı, 2017)
Article written by Aylin Kuryel on the documentary Merci Patron! (2016) and the Nuit Debout (Night Out) movement, in collaboration with Aslı Özgen.
Article (In Turkish)
Born in Flames: Radical Feminist Dystopia (Altyazı, 2016)
Aylin Kuryel's article about the film Born in Flames (Born in Flames, 1983) by Lizzie Borden.
Article (In Turkish)
Resistance and Aesthetics in the Age of Global Uprisings (İletişim Yayınları, 2015)
The book compiled by Aylin Kuryel together with Begüm Özden Fırat also includes Fırat Yücel's article "From Paris Cinematheque to Emek Cinema: Navigation and Resistance".
Book (In Turkish)
Academia.edu - Fırat Yücel
It is possible to access some of Yücel's writings on cinema here.
Articles (In Turkish)
Lights, Camera, Investigation: A Roundtable Discussion on Research and/as Video-Making (Soapbox)
Some of Aylin Kuryel's views on video production and research can be found in her responses to this enquiry.
Interview