Shifting Landscapes of Film and Media: Questioning Legacies, Navigating Critique

Erkan opened up a new Facebook group regarding the upcoming “Film and Media Conference” held at Bilgi University.
The conference is this Saturday and the keynote speakers are going to be;

Toby Miller
Ravi Vasudevan
Geneviève Sellier

Judging by the names, knowing Turkish isn’t a necessity. You can find more information on their Facebook event page or via the conferences official website.

Sabah says:

After the tragic death of five year old Dilara, it has been once more revealed that Turkey is not complying with the European urban conditions constituted by the European Council. Politicians are not making enough politics to impede awry urbanization in Turkey. This is why the money spent for the promotion videos and footages on Turkey is going down the drain.

Istanbul is trendy in other worlds, but Dilara’s destiny shows the existence of other worlds. Dilara used to live in districts that tourists never set afoot.

Dilara and her dad… VIA

Istanbul mayor Kadir Topbas announced that ISKI (Istanbul Municipality Waterworks) manager Dursun Ali Çodur was removed from office on Friday afternoon due to a tragic death of a five year old girl who fell into a waterhole which was carelessly left open by ISKI workers. Mr. Topbas later announced how he was said and how he personally decided to remove Mr Codur from his post. Better than nothing. But the systemic indifference for the human lives continue. And I don’t but Mr. Topbas PR moves. He always blames the people in charge who were appointed by himself or through his supervision. If your men regularly have faults, maybe you are a bit guilty too? Istanbul turned to be a big construction site with your own plans and now you admit you cannot finish these construction works without State aid. And we don’t forget what happened to Istiklal street in your mayordom…

AND here is Galip Hoca’s comment: not humans, properties!

I guess, we haven’t seen Unkapanı Bridge like that before. This bridge is one of the three bridges over the Golden Horn and it was on the march route during Hrant Dink’s funeral…

Here is one more shot from the funeral. In front of the building Agos’ offices are…
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Istanbul is once again playing host to a wonderful exposition. In collaboration with “Next Generation” a Greek events organizer, Rahmi Koc Museum in Halic is offering us the possibility to discover Leonardo Da Vinci’s inventions. Here is the official description which can be found alongside more information on the actual event website:

“The exhibition contains 40 machines that were built after in-depth study of Leonardo da Vinci’s designs, by a group of scientists and skilled craftsmen.

One exhibition after the other, Istanbul managed to prove to the world that it can host such events with success and grace.

This will be a youth festival with a difference. It will last five days with many activies in the Kuştepe campus of Bilgi University and its opening party will be at Yeni Melek. Here is its web page and here is a blog by the organizers and here is their site at Bilgi webpage…. I met some of the organizers and I believe it will certainly be a good try!

there is a symposium being held in istanbul called “symposium on culture of istanbul lifestyle,” where the constantly changing lifestlye of/in istanbul will be discussed. the programme of the three-day event is here.

This weekend Istanbul will be hosting the Istanbul Independent Media Forum at Bilgi university. Important speakers from all over the world will be attending this event which lasts for two days at the Dolapdere campus. Erkan and I will also be attending (sunday morning) so drop us a line if you’d like to tag along!

Event fee: none
Location: Bilgi uni dolapdere campus
Date: 4&5th of November 2006
Event website: http://forum.bianet.org/

“Image courtesy of IKSV – the official filmEkimi website”

Make sure you mark down the 13th to the 19th of October as dedicated to the movie fest taking place at the “Emek” movie theatre in Taksim. Most of the movies being shown are excellent silver screen selections. To name a few:
- “Days of glory” by Rachid Bouchareb – awarded Best Actor at the 2006 Cannes festival
- “The wind that shakes the barley” by Ken Loach - awarded Palm d’Or at the 2006 Cannes festival
- “Free Zone” by Amos Gitai - awarded Best Actress to Hanna Laslo at the 2005 Cannes festival
- “Grizzly Man” by Werner Herzog – awarded Best Documentary by the Film Critics Circle

and the list just keeps going on. A lot of the movies that are shown are movies that were awarded at festivals like Sundance and Cannes. You won’t regret it. I hear that if you go watch “Fast-food nation” by Richard Linklater you are guaranteed to never set foot in another fast food restaurant in your life.

Pink is going to be gracing our city tonight at Park Orman and you’re all advised to go see her concert, I hear it’s a great experience!
The concert starts at 21.30 (that’s the time that she goes on scene) and the prices are as follows: 45YTL for students (ID required) 55YTL for normal tickets, 88YTL for scene front and 150YTL for VIP tickets.

Edit 2:20PM: Apparently it’s also her birthday which she’s going to celebrate on stage, don’t forget to bring a present.

or philosophy in a time of terror with zeynep direk, leonard lawlor and michael naas will be held on monday, 9/11 in YKY in beyoglu. click on the flyer for more info.