TURKISH CINEMA AND TRANSNATIONAL IMAGINATIONS WORKSHOP
National Film Theatre - London - 8 / 9 December 2000
Lola and Bilidikid, 1999 - Kutlug Ataman

This is the first workshop of the Transnational Turkish Cinema network of researchers and practitioners. The aim is to bring together academics, film practitioners, writers, and policy-makers, to reflect on the changing nature of Turkish cinema in Europe.
We will look at the themes and styles that the new Euro-Turkish films are introducing, and reflect on how the Turkish migrant imagination has been changing. Our concern will be to consider the contribution of Euro-Turkish filmmakers to aesthetic and intellectual debates in Europe. We shall aim to situate the discussions of Euro-Turkish cinema within broader debates on transnational culture and the diasporic imagination.

The workshop is open to the invited guests only. However, the panel on Saturday morning will be open to the public.

This workshop is part of the 'THINKING ACROSS CULTURES: New Turkish Cinema in Europe' event at the National Film Theatre (London), which will run from 17 November to the 7th of December 2000.
There will be screenings of new films from Germany and Turkey, focusing on questions around migration, belonging and identity in fresh and critical ways.
The workshop will be followed by the 8th Turkish London Film Festival, which will take place at Rio Cinema in Dalston.

 
Workshop Draft Programme

8 December 2000: Friday

14 00 - 17 00 Panel: From Migrancy to Transnationalism: New Turkish Films from Germany

Dirk Schaeffer (Teamworx, Germany): Young Turkish Filmmakers in Germany

Georg Seesslen (EPD Film, Germany): From Stereotype to Transcultural Code: Turkish Images in German Films

Thomas Balkenhol (Middle East Technical University, Turkey): Back to the Roots: Documentary and Short Films from Turkish Directors in Germany

Discussion

17 30 - 18 30 Video screenings

 

9 December 2000: Saturday

10 30 - 13 30 Panel: Transnational Cinema and the Diasporic Imagination This panel will be held at NFT3, and will be open to invited guests and to the public. There will be an intermission after the presentations.

Deniz Göktürk (University of Southampton, UK): From Subnational to Transnational? Cross-border Dialogues in New Turkish Cinema

Paul Willemen (University of Ulster, UK): The Performance of Narration

Behrooz Hashemian (Silkroad Production, France): Production of Transnational Films: An Account of Crossing Borders

Nezih Erdogan (Bilkent University, Turkey): What's So Interesting about Turkish Films? Critical Activity and Institutional Power

Cary Rajinder Sawhney (British Film Institute, UK): Cinema of the South Asian Diaspora

Discussion, the discussant: John Hill (University of Ulster, UK)

14 30 - 17 00 Panel: Dilemmas in Multicultural Cinema

Nicolas Monceau (Institut Francais d'Etudes Anatoliennes, Turkey): Muslim Identity in Turkish Cinema

Ahmet Gürata (Birkbeck College, UK): The Taste of Pudding: European Co-Productions and National Audiences

Paul Brett (British Film Institute, UK): Current Trends in the Distribution and Exhibition of Culturally Diverse Films in the UK

Asu Aksoy (Goldsmiths College, UK): Questions of Transnational Cinema, Issues Emerging from the Workshop Discussion