belit sağ
belit SAĞ (1980, Turkey) is a video and visual artist living in Amsterdam. She studied Mathematics in Ankara, before moving to the Netherlands and enrolling in the Gerrit Rietveld Academy. She has been involved with a number of video activist collectives in Turkey and has been an artist in residence at the Rijksacademie. Her politically engaged work focuses on the manipulation of media images and has been presented in art spaces and film festivals including
TIFF, IFFR, San Francisco International Film Festival,
Eye Filmmuseum, MOCA Taipei and Tütün Deposu,
Istanbul.
Filmography
(selection, all short) Absences (2010), ‘thank you’ (2010), TURKS! (2010), Feng Shui (2010), Anti-Stockholm (2011), Past Forward (2011), ‘god forbid!’ (2011), Black-Out (2011), The First Day of Superman (2012), You Loved Her (2013), K1llth3gr00m (2014), Buluntu (Found) (2014), Soma’dan sesler (2014, doc), Lost (2014), And the Image Gazes Back (2014), What a Beautiful Voice, Act 1 (2015), My Camera Seems to Recognize People (2015), Eylül – Ekim 2015, Cizre/Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre (2015), A Yhan and Me (2016), Disruption (2016), Grain (2016), If You Say It Forty Times… (2017), Cut-out (2018), what remains (2019), Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship (co-dir. 2024)
More info: belit sağ
belit sağ at IFFR
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Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship
A collection of politically daring films stresses the need for criticality in times of censorship and repression.
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what remains
Many people in the Kurdish city of Cizre are trapped between life and death. belit sağ conjures up apparitions in her images.
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Ayhan and Me
Ayhan and Me explicitly discusses its own production and censorship in Turkey, and incisively examines the power of images and freedom of speech.
Sept. – Oct. 2015, Cizre
Which selections do you make when you record the war around you? Women and children in Cizre gain a voice with their own documentary.