belit sağ

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

sağ completed residencies in Rijksakademie, Amsterdam in 2014–2015; and International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York in 2016.[5] Screenings and exhibitions include: documenta,[6] the Toronto International Film Festival,[7] the New York Film Festival, the International Film Festival Rotterdam, among many others.

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

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

References
  1. "belit sağ | IFFR". iffr.com. Retrieved 7 March 2022.
  2. "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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