De l’exploitation à l’émancipation : le travail des femmes vu par le cinéma documentaire en Turquie

Abstract

The 2000s saw the emergence and evolution of an independent documentary cinema in Turkey that, in its quest for alternative images and voices on political and societal issues, recognizes the margins, brings to the screen the stories of ordinary citizens, challenges patriarchy, hetero-normativity, nationalism, exploitation of labor as well as that of nature, and denounces the resulting violence. Among these documentaries that expose the complex power relations are those that explore the issue of women’s labor. From exploitation to emancipation: women’s labor seen through the prism of documentary cinema in Turkey aims to study the documentaries of three directors, Güliz Sağlam, Feryal Saygılıgil and Emel Çelebi, who devote several films and several years to following women workers who, aware of their condition, decide to speak out and formulate their demands through strikes, demonstrations, and unionization. It aims to identify the modes of representation that reveal to viewers the various facets of the exploitation of women’s labor, while at the same time analyzing the ways in which filmmakers bring to the screen inspiring stories placed under the sign of solidarity and of struggle for women’s emancipation.

Keywords

• documentary
• Turkey
• work
• labor
• women
• union