BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:adamgibbons/ics METHOD:PUBLISH X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20854@offbeat.amsterdam SUMMARY:Images In Action DTSTAMP:20260422T102318Z DTSTART:20260528T173000Z DESCRIPTION:An evening of film and poetry on witnessing Palestine\n\nHow to bear witness to a world that burns before our eyes? Explore with us as we \nmove between screen and street\, between images and words\, through film and\npoetry that emerged from the political struggle in solidarity with P alestine\,\nhere in Amsterdam.\n\nStudent protests have played an importan t role in making anti-colonial\nsolidarity and resistance visible. The con stant flow of images on social media\nfueled mobilization\, as well as exh austion. Join us as we watch Class Outside\n(Aylin Kuryel\, Deniz Buga\, F ırat Yücel\, 2026) and Happiness (Fırat Yücel\, 2025).\nTwo films that fol low how the city and the screen are inhabited\, contested\, and\nreclaimed by students who refused. And how bearing witness transforms the way we\nl ook at the world and relate to one another. You can check the trailers bel ow.\n\nAlongside the films\, Çağlar Köseoğlu will share poems from his man uscript our\nlove is terroristic\, written for the end of this world. The screening and\nreading will be followed by a conversation with the artists \, moderated by Koray\nComert.\n\n\nFILMS\n\nHappiness (dir: Fırat Yücel\, 18 min\, 2025) unfolds as a desktop documentary\,\ntracing the experience of living through livestreamed genocide in Palestine\,\ndigital overload\ , and political unrest. Moving across browser windows\, messages\,\nand fr agments of everyday life\, the film reflects on how screens become sites o f\nboth exhaustion and mobilization.\n\nClass Outside (dir: Aylin Kuryel\, Deniz Buga\, Fırat Yücel\, 30 min\, 2026) shifts\nthe focus to the street . Emerging from the student encampments and protest\nmovements in Amsterda m\, the film takes the form of a collective video diary\nshaped by a broad network of participants. It explores how images are produced\nwithin stru ggle\, how they circulate\, and how they sustain forms of collective\natte ntion and action.\n\n\nLINE-UP\n\nAylin Kuryel\n\nAylin Kuryel is Assistan t Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at the\nUniversity of Amster dam\, working across research\, filmmaking\, and collaborative\npractices at the intersection of art and politics. Her work focuses on image\npoliti cs\, nationalism\, aesthetics and resistance\, and the politics of emotion s\,\nwith particular attention to how images act and mobilize.\n\nFırat Yü cel\n\nFırat Yücel is a documentary maker and film editor based in Amsterd am and\nIstanbul. He collaborates with Aylin Kuryel under Image Acts to pr oduce\nessayistic documentaries and curates video series for Altyazı Fasik ül: Free\nCinema in Istanbul. He was a fellow at BAK Utrecht’s Fellowship for Situated\nPractice 2023-2024. His latest short\, happiness (2025)\, pr emiered at Visions du\nRéel\, is part of a trilogy on desktop cinema.\n\nD eniz Buga\n\nDeniz Buga\, Istanbul\, 1982. Currently lives in Amsterdam. T heir film\, video\, and\nphotography work focuses on urbanism\, minority p olitics\, and queer stances.\nTheir work was presented at various film fes tivals and museums\, including the\nSan Sebastian Film Festival\, Oxford M odern Art Museum\, Centre Pompidou\, and C/O\nBerlin. Buga was a resident artist at Rijksakademie\, Amsterdam.\n\nÇağlar Köseoğlu\n\nÇağlar Köseoğlu is a poet and educator based in Rotterdam. He is the author of\nthe chapb ook 34 (Stanza\, 2015) and Nasleep [Aftermath] (het balanseer\, 2020). In\ n2025\, he was the poet-in-residence at the Jan van Eyck Academy in Maastr icht.\nCurrently\, he is working on his next collection onze liefde is ter roristisch\n[our love is terroristic]\, for which he received a grant from the Dutch\nFoundation for Literature.\n\nKoray Cömert\n\nKoray Comert\, m oderator of the evening\, is an activist\, screenwriter\, and\nrapper. He was raised within the ethos of hip hop: build collective power to\nfight e xploitation and remain true to oneself. With a deep engagement in\nSociali st Realism\, Comert translates lessons from past revolutions into\ncontemp orary artistic practice. As the founder of Art for the People\, a\ncollect ive of anti-capitalist artists\, he has organized political education\nses sions for artists in Miami in recent years.\n\nWould you like to attend th is program\, but don’t have the means to pay for a\nticket? Send an email to info@felixmeritis.nl\, we can work something out.\n\nNote: By booking t his ticket\, you agree to potentially be photographed during\nthe event. URL:https://offbeat.amsterdam/event/images-in-action GEO:52.3699902;4.884254 LOCATION:Felix Meritis - Keizersgracht 324\, 1016 EZ Amsterdam STATUS:CONFIRMED CATEGORIES:amsterdam-centrum,classes,documentary,festivals,film,hip-hop,kei zersgracht,poetry,queer X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

An evening of film and poetry on witnessing Palestine

How to bear witness to a world that burns befor e our eyes? Explore with us as we move between screen and street, between images and words, through film and poetry that emerged from the political struggle in solidarity with Palestine, here in Amsterdam.

Student protests have played an important role in making anti-colonial so lidarity and resistance visible. The constant flow of images on social med ia fueled mobilization, as well as exhaustion. Join us as we watch Cla ss Outside (Aylin Kuryel, Deniz Buga, Fırat Yücel, 2026) and Happ iness (Fırat Yücel, 2025). Two films that follow how the city and the screen are inhabited, contested, and reclaimed by students who refused. A nd how bearing witness transforms the way we look at the world and relate to one another. You can check the trailers below.

Alongside the fil ms, Çağlar Köseoğlu will share poems from his manuscript our love is t erroristic, written for the end of this world. The screening and read ing will be followed by a conversation with the artists, moderated by Kora y Comert.

Films

Happiness (dir: Fırat Yücel, 18 min, 2025) unfolds as a desktop documentary, tracing the experience of li ving through livestreamed genocide in Palestine, digital overload, and pol itical unrest. Moving across browser windows, messages, and fragments of e veryday life, the film reflects on how screens become sites of both exhaus tion and mobilization.

Class Outside (dir: Aylin Kuryel , Deniz Buga, Fırat Yücel, 30 min, 2026) shifts the focus to the street. E merging from the student encampments and protest movements in Amsterdam, t he film takes the form of a collective video diary shaped by a broad netwo rk of participants. It explores how images are produced within struggle, h ow they circulate, and how they sustain forms of collective attention and action.

Line-up

Aylin Kuryel

Aylin Kuryel is Assistant Professor of Literary and Cultural Analysis at t he University of Amsterdam, working across research, filmmaking, and colla borative practices at the intersection of art and politics. Her work focus es on image politics, nationalism, aesthetics and resistance, and the poli tics of emotions, with particular attention to how images act and mobilize .

Fırat Yücel

Fırat Yücel is a document ary maker and film editor based in Amsterdam and Istanbul. He collaborates with Aylin Kuryel under Image Acts to produce essayistic documentaries an d curates video series for Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema in Istanbul. He wa s a fellow at BAK Utrecht’s Fellowship for Situated Practice 2023-2024. Hi s latest short, happiness (2025), premiered at Visions du Réel, i s part of a trilogy on desktop cinema.

Deniz Buga

Deniz Buga, Istanbul, 1982. Currently lives in Amsterdam. Their film, video, and photography work focuses on urbanism, minority politics, and queer stances. Their work was presented at various film festivals and museums, including the San Sebastian Film Festival, Oxford Modern Art Mus eum, Centre Pompidou, and C/O Berlin. Buga was a resident artist at Rijksa kademie, Amsterdam.

Çağlar Köseoğlu

Çağ lar Köseoğlu is a poet and educator based in Rotterdam. He is the author o f the chapbook 34 (Stanza, 2015) and Nasleep [Aftermath] (het balanseer, 2020). In 2025, he was the poet-in-residence at the Jan v an Eyck Academy in Maastricht. Currently, he is working on his next collec tion onze liefde is terroristisch [our love is terroristic], for which he received a grant from the Dutch Foundation for Literature.

Koray Cömert

Koray Comert, moderator of the e vening, is an activist, screenwriter, and rapper. He was raised within the ethos of hip hop: build collective power to fight exploitation and remain true to oneself. With a deep engagement in Socialist Realism, Comert tran slates lessons from past revolutions into contemporary artistic practice. As the founder of Art for the People, a collective of anti-capita list artists, he has organized political education sessions for artists in Miami in recent years.

Would you like to attend this progra m, but don’t have the means to pay for a ticket? Send an email to info@fel ixmeritis.nl, we can work something out.

Note: By booking this ticket, you agree to potentially be photographed during the event.

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