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The Kurdish Female Guerrillas Fighting ISIS (Warzone Documentary) | Real...

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      In Qandil Mountains, Iraq, PKK women fight for  their rights.  "We want a society that revolves around women", one says.  "[...] one where women and men are equal, a society without pressure, without inequality,  where all differences between people are eliminated",  says Rengin, the head of a female  battalion of the Kurdistan  Worker's Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, the PKK).  Rengin joined the PKK in the mountain enclave in 1990, when she was 14, after Turkish forces killed her father.  Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan, the PKK  PKK, having Marxist-Leninist roots was formed in the late 1970s  and launched an armed struggle against the Turkish governement in 1984,  calling for an independent Kursidh state within Turkey.  The PKK's struggle is also part of the turmoil in Iraq and Syrian  where Turkey is trying to assert its influence on a battlefield with many rival forces.  In a BBC interview...

Ersin Ersavas - AURORA

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THREE THOUSAND YEARS OF LONGING | Official Trailer | MGM Studios

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"There is no story about wishing that is not a cautionary tale" -Alitheia "This is  #Miller 's first film since MadMax:Fury Road (2015) which sucked the breath from the lungs of innumerable viewers and struck them as the very definition of  #action  flick. So confidently did it hare along, with each perilous incident and every change of landscape jacking up the momentum, that Miller's decision to do things differently in "Three Thousand Years of Longing" feels proudly perverse" "Three thousand years, to be honest, means an awful lot of  #longing  " https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/three-thousand-years-of-longing-and-the-perils-of-unworldliness?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny&utm_medium=social&utm_source=linkedin

Marina Abramovic's Relentless, Violent Genius | Brilliant Ideas Ep. 26

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1.     H Τομή της Marina Abramovic “The moment the performance is finished, it’s already future. Performance is all about the   present- the here and now, and nothing else”. Marina Abramovic Η Marina Abramovic  έχει   κατακτήσει   εξέχουσα   θέση   στην   ιστορία της  performance (Abramovic & Illes, 1998). H καλλιτέχνις από την πρώην Γιουγκοσλαβία έχει δημιουργήσει έργα, αξιοποιώντας ως μέσα: το βίντεο, την παράσταση (performance), τη φωτογραφία, τον ήχο και το κείμενο, το οποίο έως τις αρχές του 1970 είχε ακόμη ουσιαστικό αντίκτυπο (Abramovic, Illes, 1998). Όλα της τα έργα συνέχονται από την παρουσία και την ενέργεια του κοινού, στοιχεία οργανικά για την πραγμάτωση του έργου (Abramovic, Illes, 1998). H πορεία της καλλιτεχνικής της δημιουργίας άρχισε να προδιαγράφεται από την μήτρα της ανατροφής της στο ορθόδοξο σερβικό περιβάλλον της προνομιούχας κοινωνίας του κομμουνισμού (Martin, 1995). Γεννημ...