Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz

Cabbage Lane Productions: A Trash Trilogy

WINESPLOITATION (2023, 17 min.)

A woman contemplates drunken memories as well as her friendships, agency, and Dionysian aspirations in this experimental no-budget short.

Next Screening: CineSalon Experimental Film Festival, Online Programme, Dec. 6th -21st, 2025.

Wine Opener: Alina Hernández
Senan: Senan O'Connor
Third Activist: Ritika Pillai
Music: Joe Anderson, Jane McBride (eksie Kitchin)
Editing: Hazal Bayar
Animations: Ece Zeytin
Director, Writer, Editor, Tattooer: Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz
Co-writers: Alina Hernández, Senan O'Connor
Special Thanks: Sheridans Cheese Mongers, Ce Na Mara residents

Presented as part of multimedia exhibition "Wine & Die" @MART Gallery & Studios, Dublin, July 2024.

Additional Exhibitions:

- 18th Irish Screen Studies Conference at Trinity College Dublin. May 2023.
- Fanvid Dublin, Unit 44. March 2023.

In Production: Daily Activities Mixtape (2026)

Third film collaboration with Alina Hernández. More info TBA.

Modelling (2025, 15 min.)

An ode to being able to be a spectacle.

Screened as part of "Against Stasis" Programme, DISSOLUTIONS Experimental Film Festival, @The Complex. Dublin, Sept. 24th, 2025.

Model: Alina Hernández
Photographer: Elena Dova
Music: Aonghus McEvoy
Dublin, Galway 2025

For screenings / links / exhibitions: temmuzsr@gmail.com.

Supported by:
Huston School of Film & Digital Media, University of Galway, West End Art Collective, Arts Council of Ireland, aemi (Artists and Experimental Moving Image)

Exhibitions / Events (to be updated)

>> Project Residency, MART Gallery & Studios - 2026, March 23-30, Dublin.
>> Pink Glasses, w/ Aonghus McEvoy - The Depot Sessions: A FLUXUS Performance, 2025, Nov. 21, The COMPLEX, Dublin.
>> “Modelling” (video artist), DISSOLUTIONS Experimental Film Festival by aemi, The Complex, Sept. 26th, 2025.
>> aemi Tier 2 Artist Support Programme (2024-2025).
>> “With A Screening Body: a music/film evening.” Kirkos, 1 Little Green St, Dublin, (2 July 2025).
>> “Punk, Cult & Video Art: Student Film Screening.” (lecturer, curator) Trapdoor Theater, University College Dublin (23 April 2025). Event poster
>> Screening "WINESPLOITATION", “Wine and Die” MART Gallery & Studios, Dublin (19-21 July 2024).
>> DIY Films from Palestine (programmer), Starling Gallery, Limerick, June 2024.
>> Screening "house_no5", DIY Films from Turkey & Syria, Fanvid Dublin (30 May 2023), Unit 44, Dublin.
>> Screening of "WINESPLOITATION", Fanvid Dublin (22 Mar 2023), Unit 44, Dublin.
>> Online Perfomance, Dissection: #TheoryPlusHouseworkTheory, curated by Joanna Walsh, PHI Foundation for Contemporary Art (Canada), 20th of May, 2023.
>> "Queer Catharsis" Print series as part of MAQFA collective, @WE-ARE-ONE by Harem of Noone & Friends - in support of queer earthquake victims, Bethnal Green Working Men's Club, London, 3rd of March, 2023.
>> Screening “Rectangular Pictures”, Livestock Festival, Galway, Ireland (June 2022).
>> Online Screening "Rectangular Pictures”, Collage Research Network Digital Exhibition (21 April 2020). Link to online exhibition
>> Online Screening "Confinement" w. Andrew Hodgson, 3:AM Magazine (8 April 2020). Link to film
>> Invited Speaker, “Punks in Academia.” Abertay University, Dundee, Scotland (27 Nov 2019). Link to event
>> Interactive Workshop, Screening of “Rectangular Pictures: qspace" collab. with Queer/Feminist Discussion Group @The School of Political Science & Sociology's Research Festival at University of Galway (22 Feb 2019). Link to event

Talks / Seminars

>> “Environmental Metaphors in Media Studies” Planetary Screens, Queens University Belfast, Sept 2025. Link to event
>>“Roundtable: Postdoctoral and ECR Roles in Film Studies” BAFTSS Conference, University of Warwick (26-28 March 2025) Link to event
>> Invited Speaker, UCC’s FOCUS Forum on Film and Screen Media Theories - Otherness, Identity, Individuality (10 Nov 2023). Link to event
>> “Navigating Hegemonic Media Formats” NECS, Izmir Economy University, June 2024. Link to event
>> Invited Speaker, University of Westminster’s CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media), BAFTSS New Connections Programme (28 Oct 2022). Link to event
>> Invited Speaker, “Punk Cinema” Dr Aaron Hunter’s Movie Talk YouTube Web series (August 2022). Link to video
>> Workshop Speaker, “Inquiring Healing Across Screen Cultures: Recuperating Narratives, Mediums, and Creativities” organized by Dr Özgür Çiçek (Freie Universität Berlin, Cinepoetics) and Dr Özlem Savaş (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, BIM) (June 2021). Link to the full workshop
>> Workshop Speaker, “Proto-Punk Queer Terrorism: The Early Cinema of John Waters.” BAFTSS LGBTQ+ Screen Studies Special Interest Group Seminar Series (29 April 2021). Link to workshop

Selected Music Performances (to be updated)

>> Drums/Vocals, w/ Little Gem Big Band - as part of METRONOME series, 2026, Apr 11, National Concert Hall, Dublin.
>> Pink Glasses, w/ Aonghus McEvoy & Ger Duffy - Music Performance, 2025, Nov. 24, Anseo, Dublin.
>> Pink Glasses, w/ Aonghus McEvoy & Ger Duffy - Music Performance @‘Wine & Die‘ Exhibition, 2024, July 17. MART Studios, Dublin.
>> Pink Glasses, w/ Aonghus McEvoy & Ger Duffy - Music Performance @Filth and Floodlights Fest, 2024, July. BOHS , Dublin.
>> Drummer, w/ Aonghus McEvoy & Ger Duffy - Music Performance, 2024, Nov. 24, Anseo, Dublin.
>> Performance, Premiere of Aonghus McEvoy’s ‘Duo for Microtonal Guitars & Motors’ - Reception Concert Series, 2023, Sept. 17, Unit 44, Dublin

(to be updated)

>>Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. “A Non-Obituary for D. H. Peligro.” Punk and Post-Punk Journal , Vol. 12, No. 1, 2023. DOI: 10.1386/punk_00190_7

>>Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. “Questions of Counter Cinema and Sally Potter’s YES.”Jump Cut, vol. 61, 2022.

>>Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. "Some Problems with Gendered Subjectivity and Representation: Baise Moi and Hard-Core Pornography.” CineJ Cinema Journal , Vol. 9, No. 2, 2021.

DOI: 10.5195/cinej.2021.321

>>Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. "Revisiting Early Punk Cinema.” Punk & Post-Punk Journal, Vol.10, No.1, 2021. DOI: 10.1386/punk_00058_1

>>Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. "Punk Aesthetics of Pedro Almodóvar’s Pepi, Luci, Bom: Self-reflexivity, Subcultural Formations and Queer Temporalities.” Journal of European Popular Culture, Vol.11, No.1, 2020. DOI: 10.1386/jepc_00011_1

>>Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. "'Space of Possibles’: Punk Subculture and Modern Nihilism.” ASAP/J , MOVE Serial Issue, ed. Temmuz Süreyya Gürbüz, 2020.

>>Gürbüz, Temmuz Süreyya. "Reflections on Queer Modernism(s) III: Queer Networks Conference” TORCH Blog – The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (March 2020)