POST Nijmegen
Viewing and Discussion of Class Outside
ASSEMBLY FOR PALESTINE | Viewing and Discussion of Class Outside
Saturday 9th of May, 15.00-18.00 uur
De Plint: Van Schaeck Mathonsingel 29, 6512 AJ Nijmegen
Language: English
Entrance: free, registration not needed
How do we archive and mobilize images for sustained action? At this Assembly for Palestine, we will come together for a collective screening of Class Outside by Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel, and Deniz Buğa.
Class outside follows the student encampment in Amsterdam. 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. Class Outside starts from the barricades that disrupt the urban flow, spreading out to the streets and the headquarters of complicit corporations. 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.
The documentary will be introduced through a short reading. Following the screening, the filmmakers will join the public in conversation—not only reflecting on their experiences but also connecting the topic of student encampments to the local context of Nijmegen. To do so, they will be joined by someone from the Nijmegen Encampment.
Class Outside
34 min, HD, 2025, NL-TR
by Aylin Kuryel, Fırat Yücel, Deniz Buga
Analogue photographs by Mateo Vega
Dream narratives by anonymous students, academics, activists
Makers
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.
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.
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.