ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses towards the under-examined terrain through the study of collective and militant film-making practices in Turkey during the same era, specifically by unearthing the case of the Young Cinema collective. The years-long silence of Young Cinema's film-makers was due to the absence of most of their important films. It is as if Young Cinema has broadly built its history through memories, surviving films and its journal. The chapter aims to make public the testimony of Young Cinema as part of an emerging 'New Left' in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Young Cinema showed a particular interest in being a witness to its own time by documenting revolutionary actions. Young Cinema believed that cinema should be promoting the struggle of workers and students, as well as providing a platform for showcasing class struggle. The chapter analyses the emergence, activity and decline of a film collective of this kind in Turkey, known as Young Cinema.
