CineShack: An Independent Space
November 2023 - September 2024
MERSIN
Affiliate:
Kültürhane Science, Art, Common Values and Ecological Life Solidarity Association (Mersin)
CineShack: An Independent Space project aims to be added to the Kültürkondu project supported under the second open call of the CultureCIVIC: Structural Support Grant Program to re-organize and transform the multi-purpose hall of the complex into Mersinefil’s movie screening and event venue. Necessary technical equipment should be purchased in order to make the venue suitable for activities and to be able to use it effectively. The project aims to provide technical equipment including microphones, curtains, computers, sound systems and projection devices for screenings, interviews, panels and workshops, to make the venue suitable for screening sessions and workshops, and to make the venue capable of hosting over sixty participants.
The project aims to make possible screening of short films, documentaries and political films, which cannot be found in the mainstream, and thereby create a new cinephile profile; to improve film watching culture in Mersin; to go beyond watching films and go one step further through events such as interviews, panels and workshops that will take place in parallel with the screening sessions; and to invite cinephiles in Mersin to think about fundamental human rights issues such as identity, class, environment and migration. The project thereby aims to add an aesthetic dimension to the politics of rights through cinema, and to create publicity with the contribution of the favorable ground offered by cinema.
