“The Human Condition in Cinema”

"Psikesinema - Psikeart & Akbank Sanat, Cinema - Psychiatry Seminars"
Coordinator: Prof. M. Emin Önder

Prof. M. Emin Önder serves as a specialist of psychiatry at Moodist Psychiatry and Neurology Hospital. / Psikeart Psychiatry Center was founded in 2006 by Prof. M. Emin Önder, who is a faculty member of the Department of Psychiatry at Kocaeli University. He continues offering treatment and counselling services, as well as organising and participating in educational activities at the centre.

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In this day and age we think with images rather than words. Instead of recounting our memories with the use of words, we share them through images. As time goes by, the pen and paper are replaced by visual recording equipment. Cinema, with its aspects concerning psychiatry, philosophy, literature and aesthetics, is the apex of visual recording. In its broadest definition, psychiatry is the science of understanding human moods, its breaking points, and ensuring the healthy development of the individual’s psychic fabric. Anything and everything related to human beings, and all things that human beings relate to fall within the field of psychiatry. The path that psychiatry treads crosses that of the art of cinema, which aspires to understand, give an account of, and witness life. The inevitable interaction, the mutually beneficial relationship between psychiatry and cinema is an intrinsic quality of the latter that pursues to understand the human being, to tell its story, and in a way bear witness to the human condition. An awareness of the relationship between cinema and psychiatry would be consequential in terms of understanding, deepening, enriching and simplifying the language of cinema. “The Human Condition in Cinema” aims to create a platform of discussion to delve into the relationship between cinema, concerned with recounting, and psychiatry, concerned with understanding and unravelling.

Seminar Programme:

14 NOVEMBER 2018 / WEDNESDAY 
NEUROSCIENCE: LOVE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Her / Spike Jonze / Distributor: Chantier Films
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15 – 21.30 DISCUSSION

Prof. Bedirhan Üstün (Moderator)
Assoc. Prof. Hakan Atalay
Taner Yılmaz

12 DECEMBER 2018 / WEDNESDAY
MIGRATION: I’LL CEASE TO EXIST IF I FORGET

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Misafir (The Guest) / Director: Andaç Haznedaroğlu / Distributor: CGV Mars Distribution / Producer: Andaç Haznedaroğlu
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15 – 21.30 DISCUSSION

Hira Selma Kalkan (Moderator)
Bahar Köse Karaca
Andaç Haznedaroğlu
Münir Alper Doğan

09 JANUARY 2019 / WEDNESDAY
ALIENATION: ALIENATION THAT DOESN’T KILL, MAKES YOU DECAY

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Babamın Kanatları (My Father’s Wings) / Director: Kıvanç Sezer / Distributor: M3 Film / Producer: Soner Alper
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15 – 21.30 DISCUSSION

Arzu Çevikalp (Moderator)
İshak Saygılı
Kıvanç Sezer
Kübra Kip

13 FEBRUARY 2019 / WEDNESDAY
EMOTIONAL TRAUMA: THE GREATEST BLOW ON THE SOUL

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: İftarlık Gazoz (61 Days) / Director: Yüksel Aksu / Distributor: Mars Distribution / Producers: Yüksel Aksu, Elif Dağdeviren, Muzaffer Yıldırım
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15 – 21.30 DISCUSSION

Prof. Emin Önder (Moderator)
Agâh Aydın, PhD
Yüksel Aksu
Prof. Dr. Gülseren Yücel

13 MARCH 2019 / WEDNESDAY
DOES LOSS MAKE LESS?

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Kelebekler (Butterflies) / Director: Tolga Karaçelik / Distributor: Chantier Films / Producers: Tolga Karaçelik, Kerem Bürsin, Metin Anter, Nedim Anter, Diloy Gülün…
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15 – 21.30 DISCUSSION

Selin Yılmaz (Moderator)
Prof. Tamer Aker
Dr. Bahar Tezcan
Tolga Karaçelik

10 APRIL 2019 / WEDNESDAY
SECRETS: SECRETS OF CITIES

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Midnight in Paris / Director: Woody Allen / Distributor: Chantier Films
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15 – 21.30 DISCUSSION

Melis Zararsız (Moderator)
Serpil Vargel, PhD
Hakan Karaş, PhD

08 MAY 2019 / WEDNESDAY
SECRET: ARE WE KEEPING THE SECRET OR IS THE SECRET KEEPING US?

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Sofra Sırları / Director: Ümit Ünal / Distributor: Chantier Films / Producers: Metin Anter, Erhan Özoğul
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15 – 21.30 DISCUSSION

Tan Tolga Demirci (Moderator)
Prof. Kültegin Ögel
Can Evrenol
Banu Bülbül

12 HAZİRAN 2019 / WEDNESDAY
DEPRESYON: ACININ POSASI

18.30 – 20.00 FILM SCREENING: Anomalisa  / Director: Duke Johnson, Charlie Kaufman / Distributor: UIP (United International Pictures)
20.00 – 20.15 INTERMISSION
20.15– 21.30 DISCUSSION

Ayşe Devrim Başterzi (Moderator)
Prof. Dr. Emine Zinnur Kılıç
Şule Öncü