Nilgün Yelpaze

Wiss. Mitarbeiterin

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+49 6421 28-24918 nilguen.yelpaze@staff 1 Deutschhausstraße 12
35032 Marburg
F|14 Institutsgebäude (Raum: 02A22)

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    WiSe 2025/26 BLICK: A Practical Guide to Contemporary Video Activism
    Video activism, which uses cameras as a tool for social justice, has undergone varoius transformations while preserving its core purpose: documentinh injustices, raising awareness of urgent social issues, and advocating for rights across a range of themes. While its often praised for its impact, it has also been critized for potentially reinforcing audience indifference due to overexposure. Focusing on key historical moments - such as the documentation of racist police violence in the 1990s and the visula mobilization in grassroots movements of the 2010s including the "Arab Spring", the Gezi Park protests in Turkey, and mobilizations in Spain and the United States - students will analyze the development of video activism and its shifting aesthetics and strategies. The course will also discuss the challenges the genre faces today.
    SoSe 2025 History of Kurdish Documentary Cinema
    Kurdish cinema is a national cinema that emerged in a transnational space (Kocer, 2012). Developing relatively late - over a century after the invention of cinema (Arslan, 2009). With recurring themes such as memory, space, borders and language (Simsek, 2018). Kurdish cinema offers a unique lens for exploring various sociopolitical and cultural issues, as well as discussions on documentary film theory. 
    WiSe 2024/25 A Practical Guide to Video Activism
    The objective of this course is to prevent the basics of filming, sound recording, and editing for the purpose of creating short videos that fall under the categoryof video activism. Students are introduced to the history of video-activism, significant case studies and the discussions on the connections between video-making and social justice, positionality and framing. In addition, the course discovers the possibilities of video activism as profession.
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