Tear Gas and Graffiti

October 30, 2013November 7, 2015 Thomas Büsch

A documentary by Sabine Küper-Büsch and Thomas Büsch about the culture of capuling during the protests in Turkey in the summer of 2013.

30 min. German with English subtitles

Featering NAR Photos collective, Mehmet Güleryüz, Erdem Gündüz, Ziya Azazi, Kardeş Türküler and others.-
Music – 2-5BZ
with Photos by NAR Photos
Assistant – Asena Hayal
Camera – Sabine Küper-Büsch / Thomas Büsch / Deniz Akgündüz
Editor – Thomas Büsch
Production – Ralf Scherer
©ZDF/3Sat – 2013

2014 Best Shorts award at the Best Shorts Competition in La Jolla, California, Award of Merit

2014 Mediterranean Journalist Award TV by the Anna Lindh Foundation; the leading regional media prize for reporting across cultures and on issues of cultural diversity and social change.

Thomas Büsch

Filmmaker, Founding Member and Secretary General of diyalog, promotion of cultural exchange with Turkey. Since 2012 he is also project manager of InEnArt.

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Chapulling (Turkish: çapuling) is a neologism originating in the 2013 protests in Turkey, coined from Prime Minister Erdoğan's use of the term çapulcu (roughly translated to "looters") to describe the protestors.

The protests started with the occupation of the Istanbul Gezi Park by a small group protesting against the demolition of a symbolic park in the center of the City, finally it became a mass demonstration with a general strike on June 17th 2013.

The word Çapuling quickly caught on, adopted by the demonstrators and online activists, and became a viral video.

Many took the concept further by integrating the unique nature of the demonstrations and defined it as "to act towards taking the democracy of a nation to the next step by reminding governments of their reason for existence in a peaceful and humorous manner."

The Çapuling section of InEnArt describes and reflects the visual culture, humor and irony of the peaceful protestors (the Çapulcu) as it developed in many forms in Turkey during 2013.

The authors of InEnArt will publish regular one phenomen of the Çapuling Culture: e.g. the Duran Adam (Standing Man), the penguin, gas festival, the woman in red...

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