belit sağ (born 1980[1]) is a videographer and visual artist from Turkey, and based in Amsterdam.[2] She studied mathematics in Ankara and audio-visual arts in Amsterdam.[3] She co-initiated projects like Kara Haber (2000–2007) and bak.ma.[2] She has been a vocal opponent of censorship within Turkey through the early twenty-first century, publishing a widely read anti-censorship article in 2016.[4]

belit sağ
Born
Ankara, Turkey
Known forvideo art, activism

Career

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sağ completed a residency in International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York in 2016.[5] Screenings and exhibitions include: documenta,[6] and the Toronto International Film Festival.[7]

In January 2018, the artist opened her first solo exhibition, "Let Me Remember" at Squeaky Wheel Buffalo Media Arts Center.[8] sağ's work was also included on the same year in the Flaherty NYC series "Common Visions" presented at Anthology Film Archives.[9]

Filmography

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Short films

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Year Title Notes[1]
2010 Absences
‘thank you’
TURKS!
Feng Shui
2011 Anti-Stockholm
Past Forward
‘god forbid!’
Black-Out
2012 The First Day of Superman
2013 You Loved Her
2014 K1llth3gr00m
Buluntu (Found)
Soma’dan sesler documentary
Lost
And the Image Gazes Back
2015 What a Beautiful Voice, Act 1
My Camera Seems to Recognize People
Eylül – Ekim 2015, Cizre/Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre
2016 A Yhan and Me
Disruption
Grain
2017 If You Say It Forty Times...
2018 Cut-out
2019 what remains

References

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  1. ^ a b "belit sağ | IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  2. ^ a b "Kai Resident's Circle: belit sağ". Kai Art Center. 2020. Archived from the original on 2 June 2021. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
  3. ^ "belit | serial vidiot". bit.contrast.org. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  4. ^ Index on Censorship. "Belit Sağ: Refusing to accept Turkey's silencing of artistic expression – Index on Censorship Index on Censorship". www.indexoncensorship.org. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  5. ^ "belit sağ". iscp-nyc.org. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  6. ^ "Rebuilding the Idea of a Global Left". Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  7. ^ "Ayhan and me". TIFF. Archived from the original on 6 November 2017. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  8. ^ "belit sağ : Let Me Remember". Squeaky Wheel Film & Media Art Center. 13 December 2017. Archived from the original on 19 June 2018. Retrieved 3 March 2018.
  9. ^ ""I Do Not Remember" – The Flaherty". flahertyseminar.org. 16 January 2018. Archived from the original on 22 November 2018. Retrieved 22 November 2018.
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