Filmscreening 'Class Outside' with paneltalks

Besides the non-stop filmscreenings of Class Outside on the evening of 6 October, there will be a special screening followed by two paneltalks. The in-depth program offers space to share knowledge about the political situation and its effects on our city. The filmmakers Aylin Kuryel, Fīrat Yücel en Deniz Buga will be discussing their film. What message are they hoping spread with Class Outside? In the second paneltalk the Amsterdam Museum head of curators Imara Limon will be in conversation with demonstrator Nour Samira Hjeij, whose outfit is part of the museum's collection since 2024. What does it mean when a museum decides to include a demonstrator's outfit in their museum collection?

Trigger warning: The film contains footage of police violence.  

Date: 6 October
Time: from19.00 till 22.00
Location: The Willet-Holthuysen House
Price: €5,-

Aylin Kuryel is an Assistant Professor in Literary and Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. Her research areas are nationalism, image politics, aesthetics/resistance, and the politics of emotions. She is the (co-)editor of Utanca Bakmak (Looking at Shame, Cogito, 2023), Sıkıntı Var (Essays on Boredom, İletişim Press, 2020), Being Jewish in Turkey: A Dictionary of Experiences (Türkiye’de Yahudi Olmak: Bir Deneyim Sözlüğü, Iletisim Press, 2017), Küresel Ayaklanmalar Çağında Direniş ve Estetik (Resistance and Aesthetics in the Age of Global Uprisings, İletişim Press, 2015), and Cultural Activism: Practices, Dilemmas and Possibilities (Rodopi, 2010). She has been involved in projects as an artist and is working as a documentary filmmaker. Among her documentaries are The City and the Messiah (2024), Translating Ulysses (2023), A Defense (2021), CemileSezgin (2020), The Balcony and Our Dreams (2020), Heads and Tails (2018), Welcome Lenin (2016). She is part of the Image Acts collective.

Fırat Yücel is a documentary maker and film editor based in Amsterdam and Istanbul. He collaborates with Aylin Kuryel under Image Acts to produce essayistic documentaries and curates video series for Altyazı Fasikül: Free Cinema in Istanbul. Only Blockbusters Left Alive (2016), Audience Emancipated: The Struggle for the Emek Movie Theater (2016), Heads and Tails (2019), March 8, 2020: A Memoir (2020), and Translating Ulysses (2023) are among his documentaries. The anthology film for which he served as artistic director, Seen Unseen: An Anthology of (Auto)Censorship (2024), premiered internationally at the 54th International Film Festival Rotterdam and was screened at MoMA Doc Fortnight, as well as CPH:DOX. He was a fellow at BAK Utrecht’s Fellowship for Situated Practice 2023-2024. His latest short, happiness (2025), premiered at Visions du Réel, is part of a trilogy on desktop cinema.

Deniz Buga, Istanbul, 1982. Currently lives in Amsterdam. Their film, video, and photography works primarily focus 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 Museum, Centre Pompidou, and C/O Berlin. Buga was a resident artist at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam.

Imara Limon, head of curators at the Amsterdam Museum

Nour Samira Hojeij, demonstrator whose outfit is now a part of  the Amsterdam museum collection