We are on Taksim Square watching the aftermath of this last mass demonstration in the city, before the COVID-19 pandemic. Two voices reflect on what they see on the screen. A child playing with a red balloon, youngsters dancing on the street, people taking photos, Marina Abramovic’s first exhibition in Istanbul… As the narrative unfolds, images take new meaning: These are screen recordings of Istanbul municipalities’ 7/24 live and open-access "Touristic Cameras" taken on the 8th of March Women’s Day 2020. March 8, 2020: A Memoir is a multi-voiced desktop-essay/documentary attempting to find the blind spots of such images, traveling in time via screen recordings.
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Fırat Yücel
Fırat Yücel is a film critic and a filmmaker. He co-founded Altyazı Monthly Cinema Magazine in 2001, and worked as the magazine’s editor in chief since then. He co-directed ONLY BLOCKBUSTERS LEFT ALIVE (2016), worked as the co-editor of the short documentary WELCOME LENIN (2016) and as the co-editor of the medium length documentary AUDIENCE EMANCIPATED: THE STRUGGLE OF THE EMEK MOVIE THEATER (2016).