@asliozgenh
๐ first-gen, migrant academic ๐๏ธ film historian & film critic ๐ absences, gaps, silences in the archives ๐๏ธ assistant professor of media and culture, University of Amsterdam ๐https://www.uva.nl/en/profile/o/z/a.ozgen-havekotte/a.ozgen-havekotte.html
โWhen punishment & criminalization threaten public thinking on a matter of shared and urgent concerns, as the situation in Palestine surely
is, then speech on Palestine becomes the litmus test for rights of expression essential to keeping democracy alive.โ
This is unfathomable...
The UN must intervene, all governments and organizations who can, must intervene and deliver large scale humanitarian aid to Gaza.
When you look at Turkey and ask why Erdoฤanโs regime chose to jail a political opponent now, the answer lies in a climate of impunity โ as I argued in @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/europe...
The second allegation threatens his mayoralty immediately.
The interior minister has the power to unseat any mayor who is accused of terror charges, even if they have not yet been convicted.
Dozens of pro-Kurdish party mayors in southeast Turkey have been replaced in this way.
Turkish authorities have ordered the detention of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, along with around 100 other people, prosecutors said.
ฤฐstanbul Mayor Ekrem ฤฐmamoฤlu, others detained in sweeping investigation
ฤฐmamoฤlu is accused of "leading a criminal group" and terrorism-related activities bianet.org/haber/istanb...
We are going on strike against the unprecedented cuts in academic teaching and research because these cuts are not based on any reasonable motivation, but are the result of the resentment of the anti-intellectual far-right government taking revenge on the so-called elite.
Dutch universities will go on strike! Against the 1.3 billion cuts!
March 10: Leiden University
March 11: Utrecht University
March 13: University Nijmegen
March 17: University of Amsterdam
March 20: Maastricht University
March 27: VU Amsterdam
April 10: Tilburg University
@woinactie.bsky.social
Iโm sorry for your loss Jaap. Sterkte ๐โค๏ธโ๐ฉน
Happy 81st birthday to Black American political activist, writer, philosopher, and academic Angela Davis (January 26, 1944)
โYou have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.โ
Come join us!!
Weโre online!! โจ๐๐๏ธโค๏ธ
This year This is Film! focuses on โcolourโ building up to the Eye International Conference in May! Check out this amazing lineup and book your tickets!! www.eyefilm.nl/en/programme...
On the "controversy" surrounding Musk's Sieg Heil:
โThe Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.โ โ George Orwell, 1984
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
โ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
The cover of the book Parable of the Sower.
Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again."
She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.
Having an exciting week of research at the Eye Filmmuseumโs collection centre #EyeScholarinResidence #workinprogress
Originally conceived as an installation (which unfortunately never made its way to the NL!) by โprivate earโ and forensic audio analyst Lawrence Abu Hamdan, this is a fascinating register of โatmospheric violenceโ created by high noise levels and constant humming of Israeli planes polluting the sky.
the famous phrase โarchives teach us about our presentโ can be evoked for this film, which depicts the continuum of various forms of violence inflicted on Palestinians using a wide variety of archival footage.
the film enacts a screen where spectres materialise in our haunted present: filming is forensics, watching is witnessing. From the sky to the soil and stones, everything is a witness; from Dargecit to court halls, everywhere is a crime scene. Tip: also watch The Soil and the Sea (2023)
#4 Dargeรงit / Hold Still. This incisive doc follows the kafkaesque legal process concerning the forced disappearances in 1995 in the eponymous district. Like the likenesses of victims appearing on the surfaces of stones in an art installation depicted in the opening sequence +
#3 The Flowers Stand Silently, Witnessing. Based on 16mm footage of wildflowers filmed by Scottish missionaries in Palestine in the 1940s, this short doc probes into the unsettling absence of Palestinians in these images, ruminating on the continuum of erasure and violence to this day.
#2 Dahomey. Feeling kinda double about this one but still has strong moments and a great addition to the growing attention to return/restitution/repatriation of cultural heritage.
Tip: also watch Statues Also Die (1953), You Hide Me (1970), The Story of Ne Kuko (2023), The Cemetery of Cinema (2023)
A few films that left an enduring mark in 2024: #1 Soundtrack to a Coup dโEtat!
Tip: also watch Alain Kassandaโs Colette et Justin (2022) and Raoul Peckโs Lumumba, la mort dโun prophรจte (1990)
Followers around Amsterdam: On 26 January, @EYE_film has a screening with live music!!! www.eyefilm.nl/whats-on/nos...
Confused about multiple scans, restorations, editions? Here is a good point to start: check out this review and follow further reading on the page silentlondon.co.uk/2013/11/17/n...
If youโre planning to watch Murnauโs Nosferatu, avoid bad scans on YouTube. Check out this stunning restoration with an improved HD scanโtrue to its original colors! Released by Masters of Cinema: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LOO...
Murnauโs Nosferatu (1922) is far scarier and more immersive than this โmodernโ iteration. Itโs proof that great cinema transcends time, and new doesnโt always mean better.
Eggersโs Nosferatu is a disappointing remake. It made me want to rewatch Murnauโs originalโa film I already revisit at least 2 times a year for my class!
This is a strong case against the idea that early/silent cinema is โprimitiveโ while contemporary cinema is its apex +
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