> Dear All
>
> After the series of screenings 'Queering the Film, Filming the Queer' last
> term, I decided to give a break and shift my emphasis to 'Nomadic
> Discourses in post-1990s 'Turkish' Cinema'. Through the films of Kutlug
> Ataman, Fatih Akin, Zeki Demirkubuz and Nuri Bilge Ceylan, I am intending
> to trigger an academic forum in order to discuss how contemporary Turkish
> cinema travels globally and how issues of gender, sexuality, nationality
> and class operate.
>
> I will start with two feature films by the video-artist Kutlug Ataman on
> 15th January, 6pm, at UCL Malet Place Engineering Building Room 1.03:
>
> Lola + Bilidikid (1999) is set in the Turkish gay/drag subculture of
> Berlin. The film narrates Murat's search for his brother who ran away from
> the family home. The story unfolds as Murat meets his brother, a Transe
> called Lola, and his man Bilidikid. Ataman's film confronts the doubled
> problem of doubly nomadic subjects.
>
> 2 Girls (2005) focuses on the passionate relationship between two
> teenagers in Istanbul. Through this queer encounter, Ataman 'explore[s]
> the tensions in the newly emerging cultural amalgam with the formation of
> a lower middle class in Turkish society in the late 80's and 90's' (Baykal
> 2008: 20-1).
>
>
> For the full programme, the event poster and details, please see the UCL
> Mellon Programme page:
>
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/seminars/2008-2009/index.shtml >
> All welcome
> With my very best wishes
> Cuneyt
>
>
>
> _______________
> Dr Cuneyt Cakirlar
> Post-doctoral Research Fellow
> UCL Mellon Programme
>
> University College London
> Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
> +44 (0) 20 7679 7458
> E-mail: c.cakirlar@???
> Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/mellon-program/fellows/cuneyt/
