Pınar Fontini
Biographic Data
| ID | 6364243 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pınar Fontini |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pınar |
| FAMILY NAME | Fontini |
| SIGNATURE | FONTINI P |
| AFFILIATIONS | School of Media and Communication, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1030-617X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
We need more poets in academia
Mizgin Müjde Arslan and women’s autobiographical filmmaking
Mizgin Müjde Arslan is a mid-career Kurdish filmmaker from Turkey. This interview focuses on her documentaries which are self-reflexive and auto-ethnographic. Focusing on personal stories including herself, Arslan wields a double critique of masculinist and colonialist codes of the state as well as the feudal and patriarchal codes of her community, while the complex female characters of these narratives deconstruct the common fantasy imposed by w…
Şehnaz, Elmas, Mina, and the Others, Who Kill The Angel in Their Houses
My mother was killed by the Angel in our house. I know many other women who were killed in thesame way. Either to kill the Angel or be killed by her ... It is a matter of life and death for us, forthe women of Turkey. In this video-essay, I introduce you to some of us: Şehnaz, Elmas, Mina, andseveral others who dare to choose life. They are the fictional female characters of the new wavefilms produced by the new generation of female directors fro…
Cinema, Taliban, and Being a Woman in Today's Afghanistan
On 13 August 2021, Sahraa Karimi posted a letter from her Twitter account. I write you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers, from the Taliban. In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire. . . . I…
Her resistance is many
This paper aims to understand the “accented” documentary practice of Mizgin Müjde Arslan, a contemporary Kurdish female filmmaker who was born in Turkey but lives in diaspora. I will discuss her filmmaking through the features of accented cinema, developed by Hamid Naficy and furthered by Asuman Suner. These features are multi-perspectivity, liminality, being the subject and the storyteller simultaneously, deconstructing the borders, replacing th…
Meet Me in the Evening for a Kiss in Taksim Square
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Her resistance is many
This paper aims to understand the “accented” documentary practice of Mizgin Müjde Arslan, a contemporary Kurdish female filmmaker who was born in Turkey but lives in diaspora. I will discuss her filmmaking through the features of accented cinema, developed by Hamid Naficy and furthered by Asuman Suner. These features are multi-perspectivity, liminality, being the subject and the storyteller simultaneously, deconstructing the borders, replacing th…
Meet Me in the Evening for a Kiss in Taksim Square
Cinema, Taliban, and Being a Woman in Today's Afghanistan
On 13 August 2021, Sahraa Karimi posted a letter from her Twitter account. I write you with a broken heart and a deep hope that you can join me in protecting my beautiful people, especially filmmakers, from the Taliban. In the last few weeks, the Taliban have gained control of so many provinces. They have massacred our people, they kidnapped many children, they sold girls as child brides to their men, they murdered a woman for her attire. . . . I…
Şehnaz, Elmas, Mina, and the Others, Who Kill The Angel in Their Houses
My mother was killed by the Angel in our house. I know many other women who were killed in thesame way. Either to kill the Angel or be killed by her ... It is a matter of life and death for us, forthe women of Turkey. In this video-essay, I introduce you to some of us: Şehnaz, Elmas, Mina, andseveral others who dare to choose life. They are the fictional female characters of the new wavefilms produced by the new generation of female directors fro…
Mizgin Müjde Arslan and women’s autobiographical filmmaking
Mizgin Müjde Arslan is a mid-career Kurdish filmmaker from Turkey. This interview focuses on her documentaries which are self-reflexive and auto-ethnographic. Focusing on personal stories including herself, Arslan wields a double critique of masculinist and colonialist codes of the state as well as the feudal and patriarchal codes of her community, while the complex female characters of these narratives deconstruct the common fantasy imposed by w…
We need more poets in academia
Art (4 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Movie theater (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Feminism (2 works) · Film director (2 works)