The second day of Unlearning Maps begins by reflecting on the different positions from which events are experienced, remembered, and narrated.
Through Happiness and Seen Unseen we explore questions of distance, belonging, and the shifting perspectives that emerge through movement between homeland and elsewhere.
Lola LievenFriday 10.07.2026
15:00-22:00
Chapter One
From Here, From There14:30 Doors Open
15:00 Introduction
15:10 Film Screening: Class Outside, Happiness
16:30 Conversation with the filmmakers
17:15 Break
TICKETSEach ticket will go to the fundraiser. This gathering is about (un)learning together. If you cannot afford the ticket, please come by, and we will figure it out together.
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happiness
dir: Fırat Yücel / 2025 / TR / 18’ /
English, Turkish, Dutch, Serbian, Arabic w/ EN subtiles![]()
Happiness unfolds as a desktop documentary, tracing the experience of living through livestreamed genocide in Palestine, digital overload, and political unrest. Moving across browser windows, messages, and fragments of everyday life, the film reflects on how screens become sites of both exhaustion and mobilization.
Talk with
Deniz Buga & Fırat Yücel
Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship
dir:
Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema
/ 2024 / TR / 66’ /
Turkish, English, Kurdish w/ EN subtitles![]()
Following the suppression of the Gezi Resistance in 2013, which mobilised all aspects of the political spectrum, censorship and state’s violations of freedom of expression in Turkey has become increasingly severe. Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship is a collective contemplation by a group of filmmakers/artists from Turkey and the Netherlands, reflecting on the limits and boundaries of expression from behind the rising barriers of the last two decades.
Using different techniques, tactics, and interfaces such as desktop documentary, letter, photography, video-essay, reenactment, CCTV and online interviews; Seen Unseen focuses on the vital cinematic question of "to show or not to show", exposing practices of and exploring the cause-effect dynamics between censorship and auto-censorship.
