Ilker Çatak is an award-winning Turkish-German director and writer. His films include Ayda (2008), When Namibia was a City (2010), Old School (2013), Where We Are (2013), Zeitraum (2014), and Fidelity (2014).
Fidelity is a short film set during the 2013 Gezi protests in Istanbul and tells the intersecting stories of a protester, a young married couple, and clashing political ideologies. You can watch the trailer at: https://vimeo.com/123073474
At this event, we will watch a clip of the film, after which Emrah Yıldız, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and MENA, will engage Çatak in a conversation about his work and the interesting issues it raises.
Emrah Yıldız is co-editor of the Turkey Page at Jadaliyya and co-editor of the collection "Resistance Everywhere": The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey (Tadween, 2014).
Ilker Çatak's visit to Northwestern is co-sponsored by:
Department of German
Keyman Modern Turkish Studies Program (Buffett Institute for Global Studies)
Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
Center for Global Culture and Communication
Department of Performance Studies
Department of Radio/Television/Film
Middle East and North African Studies Program
Cost: Free