HUMAN RIGHTS and
VISUAL CULTURE
12-17 November 2005
NISI MASA - VideA
Human Rights
and
Visual Culture
Ankara Youth Meeting
Activity Description
We, as NISI MASA, European Young Cinema Network, and VideA will organize a European Youth Meeting named "Human Rights and Visual Culture" between the dates November 12-17, 2005 in Ankara, Turkey. This meeting mainly deals with the promotion of Human Rights values through audiovisual tools and the possibility for young people to participate this process. Besides this, we aim to open up opportunities for anybody who is interested so as to discuss and share different ideas and experiences regarding the issues under the title of this meeting.
Along 'Festival on Wheels' (www.europeanfilmfestival.com), by this event we plan to gather 28 participants from 14 countries of Europe and local audience from Ankara, along with professionals and amateurs working in the field of cinema, media (including alternative media), video art and video activism. During 5 days, people will introduce to each other different experiences of promotion of Human Rights through film and video making. Panels, screenings, workshops and A Fanzine and Videozine Exhibition/Market will be held. Besides encouraging intercultural dialogue, the main aim of the meeting is to provide participants with knowledge, tools, methods, so that they can develop film and video activities in their own countries, which would promote Human Rights values and a peace culture.
The meeting will take place in two different centers; Middle East Technical University - Centre for Audio- Visual Research (METU - GISAM) & Goethe Institute Conference Hall. Whilst workshops will be held in former; presentations, panels and the screenings will take place in the latter.
During the two first days, two different workshops, to one of which we expect participation of our guests Bulgaria, are planned. These guests are “InterSpace”, a collective dealing with open source and free software and internet usage, videao art and alternative media. The workshops will be relatively entitled as "Images Left Out" and "Inter-Space Experience". The first workshop will be organzied by Selda Taşkın and Esra Demirkıran, while the second one will be held by our guests from Bulgaria. The former will mostly deal with establishing a language through editing of left out images and will question censorship mechanisms and processes in general. In the latter workshop, experiences and knowledge on the technical basis will be shared.
In the following three mornings each national group will make a 20-minute-presentation, developing a specific dimension of the seminar’s main question, "How can cinema promote Human Rights values?". These short lectures will be followed by discussions. Four panels will be organized, with the presence of guests. One of the panels, focusing more on the implication of young people will be named: "Independent Cinema and Human Rights". The others are titled as "Media and Monopolization", "Human Rights Violations and Censorship" and "Alternative Media". Screening of film parts during panels is optional and will be up to the panelists.
Screenings of fiction and documentary films will be strongly related with one of the hottest Human Rights topics of our age: "Immigration". There will be also screenings of short films and video works, besides a National Fanzine and Videozine Market, which will be open along the meeting time at the Goethe Institute.
The meeting will be followed up with the publishing of a book, which will consist of the texts of all speeches and discussions. Moreover, a DVD will be attached to it, with edited views from the whole event, workshops and excerpts of films, etc.
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NISI MASA IS SUBSIDIZED BY:
THE EUROPEAN COMMISION YOUTH PROGRAM
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| THE COUNCIL OF EUROPE |
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THIS MEETING IS SPONSORED BY:
THE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE
- VOLKAN KAVAS
- SELDA TAŞKIN
- ESRA DEMİRKIRAN
- PINAR ERDOĞAN
- ESRA İYİDOĞAN
- GÜLÇİN ŞAHİN
- CAN ERTUNA
- UFUK ÖZGEN
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