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

May 4, 2023. 15.00 – 17.30. Bush House Lecture Theatre 1, King’s College London

See https://wordpress.er.kcl.ac.uk/film-studies-research/2023/03/screening-and-film-talk-kurdish-post-migrant-filmmaking-in-germany/

This event 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 talk 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).