27 Mar 20:00
Jam - Bangkok
A monthly cultural studies film session hosted by cultural researcher and author Viriya Sawangchot. This session will be on a documentary by Naz Gündoğdu & Friedemann Pitschak on Turkish football, regarding fan and protest culture.
Screening starts at 8pm and will be followed by a casual discussion.
// Free Entry //
AYAKTAKIMI (2015)
Is a documentary movie about the Turkish fan culture; being a fan in the face of political oppression, which today is also a protest culture. Against the industrial football, but also against the Turkish AKP government, which is fighting the football fans very harsh. The repression of the state contains the law 6222 "against violence and unrest at sports", Passolig, the trial against Çarşı and much more. Ayaktakımı takes you on a colourful and passionate journey from Istanbul Diyarbakır.
NAZ GÜNDOĞDU
Naz Gündoğdu from Istanbul studies cinema & arts at Vienna Fine Arts Academy since 2011. Ayaktakımı is her first (university) movie project. The reasons to make a movie about the Turkish fan scene was the relationship to her home city Istanbul and her football love.
FRIEDEMANN PITSCHAK
Friedemann Pitschak from Nürnberg doesn't come from the movie sector. Naz and Friedemann developed the idea of ayaktakımı together in early 2015, because of her common love of Turkish football culture. Before ayaktakımı he was one of the editors of the football and fan culture radio show "Kurvenfunk" at Radio Z in Nürnberg.
VIRIYA SAWANGCHOT
A cultural researcher based in Bangkok, Thailand. He was an API senior fellow (2013-2014), Asian Public Intellectual program, Nippon Foundation, and has previously taught in Cultural Studies program, Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia, Mahidol University, Thailand.
