Şirin Fulya Erensoy

Şirin Fulya Erensoy is a film scholar, curator and lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Groningen. Her research focuses on the intersections of documentary cinema, activism and political aesthetics, combining feminist and ethnographic approaches to examine how moving images intervene in contexts of repression, displacement and collective struggle.

She completed her Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship at the Film University Babelsberg Konrad Wolf (2021–2023) with the project VIDEOACT, which explored the audiovisual practices of exiled video activists from Turkey in Germany and their strategies for documenting and resisting under conditions of displacement. Her co-authored studies on the bak.ma digital archive investigate activist archiving as a collaborative media practice that challenges erasure and sustains political memory.

At Groningen, she develops the notion of curation as pedagogy, building on her dual experience as film programmer and lecturer to explore how screenings, exhibitions, and teaching can function as forms of intervention—spaces where questions of form, aesthetics and industry are approached as ways of thinking collectively about cinema's political and sensory possibilities. Across her writing and curatorial work, she engages with feminist and decolonial image practices that confront censorship, cultivate visibility and reimagine the role of film as a public, political and pedagogical act.