Screening – Class Outside: Work in Progress
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04.11.2025
VideoPower
On May 8, 2024, an unprecedented event unfolded in Amsterdam when bulldozers dismantled the student encampment protesting the state of Israel's genocide in Palestine. People gathered on Rokin Street, building barricades in the city centre, expanding the anti-colonial knowledge production outside the classroom. Starting from the barricades that disrupt the urban flow, spreading out to the streets and the headquarters of complicit corporations, Class Outside is a collective inquiry addressing the question of how we archive and mobilise images for ongoing action. In a collaborative effort involving artists, filmmakers, activists, poets, and photographers, this episodic video diary explores the fabric of resistance through slogans, everyday objects, cobblestones, and dreams.
Aylin Kuryel is an Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her research areas are nationalism, image politics, aesthetics/resistance, and the politics of emotions.
Fırat Yücel is a documentary maker and film editor based in Amsterdam and Istanbul. He collaborates with Aylin Kuryel under Image Acts to produce essayistic documentaries and curates video series for Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema in Istanbul.
Deniz Buga, Istanbul, 1982. Currently lives in Amsterdam. Their film, video, and photography works primarily focus on urbanism, minority politics, and queer stances.