Protocinema
@protocinema.bsky.social
An itinerant cross-cultural art organization that commissions and presents site-aware art around the world. Our purpose is to support dialogue between cultures on equal footing and create opportunities for listening and creative expression.
This program is supported by the festival, Ekrani i Artit 2025: Postcards from Elsewhere, Goethe Institute, Protocinema and SAHA Association, Istanbul.
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
This program is supported by the festival, Ekrani i Artit 2025: Postcards from Elsewhere, Goethe Institute, Protocinema and SAHA Association, Istanbul.
All you have to do is read the subtitles aloud to become the main character in a story of camaraderie, sex, betrayal, in the digital theater of love and life.
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
All you have to do is read the subtitles aloud to become the main character in a story of camaraderie, sex, betrayal, in the digital theater of love and life.
Read Subtitles Aloud is part melodrama, part experiment, part game: a theatrical experience disguised as video art, where the fourth wall is broken and everyone becomes implicated in interpersonal entanglements.
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Read Subtitles Aloud is part melodrama, part experiment, part game: a theatrical experience disguised as video art, where the fourth wall is broken and everyone becomes implicated in interpersonal entanglements.
Onur Karaoğlu’s Read Subtitles Aloud, Chapter 2 (2020), I’m Glad You Exist is a participatory dialogue on cultural divides between former lover, that becomes a gentle invocation for connection despite, or even because of, miscommunication.
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Onur Karaoğlu’s Read Subtitles Aloud, Chapter 2 (2020), I’m Glad You Exist is a participatory dialogue on cultural divides between former lover, that becomes a gentle invocation for connection despite, or even because of, miscommunication.
-director of Orhan Pamuk's Museum Of Innocence in Istanbul. Karaoglu teaches classes on performance at Boğaziçi and Koç University. He received BA in Sociology at Boğaziçi University and MFA in Theater Directing at Columbia University in The City Of New York.
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
-director of Orhan Pamuk's Museum Of Innocence in Istanbul. Karaoglu teaches classes on performance at Boğaziçi and Koç University. He received BA in Sociology at Boğaziçi University and MFA in Theater Directing at Columbia University in The City Of New York.
-SPOT, Operation Room and Protocinema. He is one of the founding members of Studio 4 Istanbul that is producing theater, film works and performance space KÖŞE in Yeldeğirmeni which then turned into an international performance festival.
Between 2014-2019 he worked as the -
Between 2014-2019 he worked as the -
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
-SPOT, Operation Room and Protocinema. He is one of the founding members of Studio 4 Istanbul that is producing theater, film works and performance space KÖŞE in Yeldeğirmeni which then turned into an international performance festival.
Between 2014-2019 he worked as the -
Between 2014-2019 he worked as the -
Since 2010, his original and adapted writing and directing pieces have been commissioned and presented by festivals and institutions such as Wiener Festwochen, Dancing On The Edge, Media Art Xplarotion and Volksbühne.
His installations and video works were presented at Bahar-
His installations and video works were presented at Bahar-
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Since 2010, his original and adapted writing and directing pieces have been commissioned and presented by festivals and institutions such as Wiener Festwochen, Dancing On The Edge, Media Art Xplarotion and Volksbühne.
His installations and video works were presented at Bahar-
His installations and video works were presented at Bahar-
Curated by Mari Spirito, this program explores the nuances of cultural third spaces and honors what can be learned through confusion and misunderstanding.
Onur Hamilton Karaoglu makes works in theater, performance and video.
Onur Hamilton Karaoglu makes works in theater, performance and video.
June 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Curated by Mari Spirito, this program explores the nuances of cultural third spaces and honors what can be learned through confusion and misunderstanding.
Onur Hamilton Karaoglu makes works in theater, performance and video.
Onur Hamilton Karaoglu makes works in theater, performance and video.
This program is supported by the festival, Ekrani i Artit 2025: Postcards from Elsewhere, Goethe Institute, Protocinema and SAHA Association, Istanbul.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This program is supported by the festival, Ekrani i Artit 2025: Postcards from Elsewhere, Goethe Institute, Protocinema and SAHA Association, Istanbul.
- life free from undue influence, this work draws connections between diasporic fantasies of return, gospel music, and 19th-century nation-building projects, The Upper Room examines how spaces—real and imagined—are produced and reproduced through power, memory, and longing.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
- life free from undue influence, this work draws connections between diasporic fantasies of return, gospel music, and 19th-century nation-building projects, The Upper Room examines how spaces—real and imagined—are produced and reproduced through power, memory, and longing.
Collins reconstructs forgotten historical events, highlighting the horror of conforming to unjust systems. He suggests that the human mind is the ultimate battleground, where behavior modification captures, and refuses to release, the imagination. Arguing at everyone deserves a -
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Collins reconstructs forgotten historical events, highlighting the horror of conforming to unjust systems. He suggests that the human mind is the ultimate battleground, where behavior modification captures, and refuses to release, the imagination. Arguing at everyone deserves a -
This sci-fi video essay explores the psychology of slavery—both of the enslaved and the enslavers—using AI to generate otherworldly characters and black screens with voiceovers that lead to an expected, yet startling, conclusion that doubles back on itself.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
This sci-fi video essay explores the psychology of slavery—both of the enslaved and the enslavers—using AI to generate otherworldly characters and black screens with voiceovers that lead to an expected, yet startling, conclusion that doubles back on itself.
In 2019, he participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
In 2019, he participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program. He lives and works in Los Angeles.
Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna.His work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He received an MFA from UCLA in 2018, and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Carré d’Art, Nîmes; and the Kunsthalle Wien in Vienna.His work is in the permanent collection of the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. He received an MFA from UCLA in 2018, and was a 2017 resident at the Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture.
Coleman Collins is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and Assistant Professor of Art at University of California, Irvine. Selected recent exhibitions and screenings have taken place at Brief Histories, New York; e-flux, New York; the Palestine Festival of Literature, Jerusalem/Ramallah;
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Coleman Collins is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and Assistant Professor of Art at University of California, Irvine. Selected recent exhibitions and screenings have taken place at Brief Histories, New York; e-flux, New York; the Palestine Festival of Literature, Jerusalem/Ramallah;
Curated by Mari Spirito, this program explores the nuances of cultural third spaces and honors what can be learned through confusion and misunderstanding.
June 10, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Curated by Mari Spirito, this program explores the nuances of cultural third spaces and honors what can be learned through confusion and misunderstanding.
By removing the rapid, jarring movements from the original footage, these images are transformed into a contemplative exploration of the landscape, prompting a reevaluation of our connection to nature.
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
By removing the rapid, jarring movements from the original footage, these images are transformed into a contemplative exploration of the landscape, prompting a reevaluation of our connection to nature.
The video explores how colonial histories have shaped the concepts of “native” and “non-native,” creating artificial landscapes and distorting the relationship between humans and the natural world.
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
The video explores how colonial histories have shaped the concepts of “native” and “non-native,” creating artificial landscapes and distorting the relationship between humans and the natural world.
Hiding in Plain Sight centers on Heracleum Persicum, commonly known as Giant Hogweed, a plant native to Iran that was displaced during the colonial era. Once prized as an ornamental species, it is now categorized as “alien and invasive” in Europe and North America.
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
Hiding in Plain Sight centers on Heracleum Persicum, commonly known as Giant Hogweed, a plant native to Iran that was displaced during the colonial era. Once prized as an ornamental species, it is now categorized as “alien and invasive” in Europe and North America.
It is curated by Mari Spirito, Executive Director and Curator of Protocinema, and features works by Abbas Akhavan, Liu Chuang, Aylan Couchie, Alice Gosti, Cansu Yıldıran, Anahita Razmi, Atalay Yavuz.
April 21, 2025 at 2:09 PM
It is curated by Mari Spirito, Executive Director and Curator of Protocinema, and features works by Abbas Akhavan, Liu Chuang, Aylan Couchie, Alice Gosti, Cansu Yıldıran, Anahita Razmi, Atalay Yavuz.
Abbas Akhavan: Feb 20 - Mar 5
Aylan Couchie: Mar 6-16
Liu Chuang: Mar 17-30
Cansu Yıldıran: Mar 31- Apr 13
Anahita Norouzi: Apr 14-27
Atalay Yavuz: Apr 28- May 11
Alice Gosti: May 12-25
Anahita Razmi: May 26 - Jun 9
Aylan Couchie: Mar 6-16
Liu Chuang: Mar 17-30
Cansu Yıldıran: Mar 31- Apr 13
Anahita Norouzi: Apr 14-27
Atalay Yavuz: Apr 28- May 11
Alice Gosti: May 12-25
Anahita Razmi: May 26 - Jun 9
March 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Abbas Akhavan: Feb 20 - Mar 5
Aylan Couchie: Mar 6-16
Liu Chuang: Mar 17-30
Cansu Yıldıran: Mar 31- Apr 13
Anahita Norouzi: Apr 14-27
Atalay Yavuz: Apr 28- May 11
Alice Gosti: May 12-25
Anahita Razmi: May 26 - Jun 9
Aylan Couchie: Mar 6-16
Liu Chuang: Mar 17-30
Cansu Yıldıran: Mar 31- Apr 13
Anahita Norouzi: Apr 14-27
Atalay Yavuz: Apr 28- May 11
Alice Gosti: May 12-25
Anahita Razmi: May 26 - Jun 9
In the face of persistent, growing global violence—unbearable and inescapable—these artworks invite us to reflect on the act of being present as both a small yet vital response to our shared human experience and a crucial part of the fight for human rights.
March 28, 2025 at 6:42 PM
In the face of persistent, growing global violence—unbearable and inescapable—these artworks invite us to reflect on the act of being present as both a small yet vital response to our shared human experience and a crucial part of the fight for human rights.