Şirin Fulya Erensoy

  In July 2024, I conducted a 2-day workshop at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt, in the context of the Cultures d’Avenir programme. The Cultures d’Avenir project is initiated

    In May 2024, in collaboration with the Spore Initiative, we showed four short documentaries on ecology and activism. The films were accompanied by brief virtual messages from the filmmakers,

The new open access book, “Displacing Theory Through the Global South,” edited by Iracema Dulley and Özgün Eylül İşcen, is now available from ICI Berlin Press! My contribution to the

I joined this two-day workshop organized by Einstein Fellow Pınar Yıldız and contributed with a presentation entitled Migration and Identity: Feminist Perspectives in Contemporary Turkish-German Documentaries. For more details on the

I will be part of this year’s Berlin Critics’s Week debate program following the screening of Riar Rizaldi’s Notes from  Gog Magog and Omer Fast’s Abendland. The evening’s program, titled Carnival of

Happy to be part of this impressive collection on radical film, art, and digital media for ‘societies in turmoil’. I’ve written a chapter on LGBTI+ activism inspired by a video

10 November – 2 December 2023 Friday -Saturday, 15-19h “Bakma” (Don’t look!), was a police announcement that echoed through the squares of Ankara and Istanbul during protests from the mid-90s

What kind of curatorial practices do we need to connect with each other across time and geography and to form persistent, transglobal networks? Which curatorial practices challenge prejudices and expectations

  It was an absolute delight to give this workshop in the context of the Hive International Short Film Days. The workshop delved into audio-visual media’s historical and contemporary use for political

Happy to share my new article ‘Experiences of migration from Turkey to Germany: the female guest worker in contemporary documentaries’ published in Studies for Documentary Film (it’s open access!): https://doi.org/10.1080/17503280.2023.2253574

  For this episode of Chromatic Wednesdays, four short films were selected around the theme of Mythology. The films featured not only draw on mythic narratives, but create their own. Using

Images from the Q&A session following screenings of «A Letter from Raqqa» (2020, Arash Asadi) and «The Other Side of the River» (2021, Antonia Kilian).  In the Kurdish struggle for freedom, resistance

For the latest of #CinemaofCommoning blog post, writer and curator Rachel Pronger reflects on TACTICS FOR A TRANSNATIONAL ARCHIVE, a weekend of workshops exploring transnational archiving and creative practice that

In January 2023, SİNEMA TRANSTOPIA, the cinema project by bi’bak, re-opens its doors at a newly renovated space in Berlin-Wedding. A physical hub that brings together film and video culture,

On 9 November 2022, the screening of the film Anatolian Leopard took place at Apartment Project in the context of the Chromatic Wednesdays event series (funded by the Berlin Senate Department

My colleague and friend Julia Lazarus and I have curated a special selection of short films and TikTok videos on everyday feminisms for the second edition of Hive International Short

The schedule for the European Network for Cinema and Media Studies has been announced. Set to take place 22-26 June 2022 in Bucharest, Romania, this year’s conference title is  “Epistemic Media:

Les écrans turcophones, edited by Kristian Feigelson and Mehmet Öztürk is out and can be purchased via the publishing house Presses Universitaires du Septentrion’s website:  https://www.septentrion.com/FR/livre/?GCOI=27574100911660 The book is a comprehensive overview,

The program for the online conference New Creative Praxis in Film and Television: Hybrid Futures of Gender Equality has been announced. The conference will be held on May 6-7, 2022,

In the new edition of Chromatic Wednesdays, held in cooperation with «Twister», an exhibition project at the neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst  nGbK, 26 February – 30 April 2022) ,

How does video activism challenge dominant power structures?   The latest episode of the podcast Dritte Klappe looks at the use of video as an activist tool by practitioners from

Şirin will be a member of the feature-length documentary competition jury at the Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, to be held in March 2022. The Women’s Voices Now Film Festival, which

The schedule for the Activating Attention – Political Videos on Social Media International Online Conference to be held 20-21 January 2022 has been announced!   For more information on the conference,

Speakers: Tina Askanius, Marcus Bösch, Yves Citton, Tom Divon, Şirin Erensoy, Aslı Kotaman, Sandra Ristovska, Sophija Savtchouk, Kerstin Schankweiler, Josepha Wessels, and others. Organized by the research project “Attention Strategies

Keynote speakers will be award-winning filmmakers, scholars, and educators C.A. Griffith (Arizona State University) & Karen Pearlman (Macquarie University). Deadline for submission is March 1, 2022. More here: https://ftvconference.bilgi.edu.tr/en/creativepraxis/   

Research News: Two Fellows from Turkey at the Film University (in German). https://www.filmuniversitaet.de/en/university/aktuelles/news/articel/detail/zwei-fellows-aus-der-tuerkei-an-der-filmuni