Non-stop screenings 'Class Outside'

Synopsis
On May 8, 2024, an unprecedented event unfolded in Amsterdam when bulldozers dismantled the student encampment protesting the state of Israel's genocide in Palestine. People gathered on Rokin Street, building barricades in the city center, expanding the anti-colonial knowledge production outside the classroom. Starting from the barricades that disrupt the urban flow, spreading out to the streets and the headquarters of complicit corporations, Class Outside, is a collective inquiry addressing the question of how we archive and mobilize images for ongoing action. In a collaborative effort involving artists, filmmakers, activists, poets, and photographers, this episodic video diary explores the fabric of resistance through slogans, everyday objects, cobblestones, and dreams.

Out of solidarity, the film will not be screened during the Rode Lijn demonstration in Amsterdam. On the Amnesty website you can apply to participate in the demonstration. The exact timeframe is to be announced.

What can you do?
By voicing support and joining peace demonstrations you can participate in solidarity actions. If it is possible for you to do so, there are various organisations to which you can donate. These include some of the many groups involved in the upcoming Rode Lijn demonstration, such as the Palestinian Community in the Netherlands, Amnesty International, Doctors for Gaza, BDS Netherlands, Dutch Scholars for Palestine, Een Ander Joods Geluid, Erev Rav, Oxfam Novib, PAX, Plant een Olijfboom, Save the Children, and The Rights Forum.

On the 6th of October there will be a panel conversation with the filmmakers. More information will follow.

Datum: October 4 till October 7
Tijd: from10.00 till 17.00, every 34 minutes
Locatie: The Willet-Holthuysen House
Prijs: free entry with valid museum

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.