From the 1980s onwards and in tandem with significant feminism gains, some influential productions which are categorized and widely accepted as “Women’s Film” took their place in the history of Turkish Cinema. Scenes I Imagine examines why the “queer implications / possibilities” that these so-called “Women’s Films” entail are portrayed as friendship, companionship or sisterhood, or why they are represented / cannot be represented as queer relations. Scenes I Imagine examines why the “queer implications / possibilities” that these so-called “Women’s Films” entail are portrayed as friendship, companionship or sisterhood, or why they are represented / cannot be represented as queer relations. Scenes I Imagine pursues this inquiry by focusing on three films from that era. Rather than aiming to reach forgone or absolute conclusions, it goes one step beyond implying and towards the imagination. With reference to the fact that in Turkish cinema, heterosexual relationships are visible in certain forms, whilst queer relationships are only ‘implied’, we want to re- watch three films (“Dul Bir Kadın” (1985), Dir: Atıf Yılmaz, “Kadının Adı Yok” (1988), Dir: Atıf Yılmaz, “İki Kadın” (1992) Dir: Yavuz Özkan) in which ambiguous sexuality takes place.
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