Who is Afraid of Ideology? Part 1 (2017) and Part 2 (2019) are based on interviews the artist Marwa Arsianos conducted with members of the autonomous Kurdish women’s movement in the mountains of Kurdistan and Jinwar, an all-women’s commune in northern Syria, to explore the possibilities of a political practice based on a nature-based existence and a struggle for women’s liberation. Her film explores the relationships between ideology and life practice, and ecology as practice and theory.

We invite you to join us for a film screening followed by a discussion with Dilar Dirik.

Dilar Dirik was born in Antakya in 1991 and grew up in Offenbach am Main. She holds a PhD in sociology from the University of Cambridge. Her book “The Kurdish Women’s Movement: History, Theory, Practice” was published by Pluto Press in 2022 and is a detailed ethnography of the revolutionary Kurdish women’s liberation struggle. From 2019 to 2023, Dirik worked as a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Oxford. She has since left academia to focus on political education and internationalist networking.

Accessibility

• Duration: Film 51 Min., discussion about 1 hour max
  Spontaneous breaks are possible at any time
  Language: English, Kurdish (Kurmanci) with English subtitles
  We can translate into German, English und Kurdish (Kurmanci)

Supported by:
Kulturamt der Stadt Frankfurt
Hessische Theaterakademie
Frauenreferat der Stadt Frankfurt