Chute Film Coop

Chute Film Coop Chute is a Den Haag based grassroots film collective with ties to Istanbul, founded in 2021.

Herkese merhaba,Hala gerçekliğini idrak edemediğimiz bir durumla karşı karşıyayız. Canımızın içi, birtanemiz, hayat neşe...
23/07/2026

Herkese merhaba,

Hala gerçekliğini idrak edemediğimiz bir durumla karşı karşıyayız. Canımızın içi, birtanemiz, hayat neşemiz, kolektifimizin kurulmasında ve büyümesinde en önemli rollerden birine sahip Gökçen’imizi kaybettik. Gökçen’le birlikte sahip olduğumuz şeylerin birçoğunu da kaybettik. Baktığımız her şeyin rengini kaybettiği bir süreç yaşıyoruz. Anıların gülümseme değil, sadece acı verdiği bir durumdayız. Söyleyecek çok fazla şey bulamıyoruz şu an için. Anısı değil kendisi yaşasın istiyoruz sadece. Tek isteyeceğimiz şey onunla geçecek birkaç an daha. Bu acıyla nasıl baş edilir bunu da bilmiyoruz. Bu sebeple yayınlarımıza ve programlarımıza bir süreliğine ara veriyoruz.

Chute, Gökçen’in hayalini kurduğu şekilde “daha planlı ve programlı” şekilde devam edecek ve Gökçen’in tasarladığı tüm programları büyük bir titizlikle hayata geçirecek.

Seni hayatımız boyunca her baktığımız detayda çok seveceğiz. Hiçbir şey aynı olmayacak ve seni çok özleyeceğiz. Varlığın bu dünyaya çok şey kattı, yokluğun dahasını götürdü. Seni seviyoruz. 🐩

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Hello everyone,

We are facing a reality that we still cannot fully comprehend. We have lost our beloved Gökçen; our dearest friend, joy of our lives, and one of the people who played the biggest role in establishing and growing this collective. Along with Gökçen, we have also lost so much of what we shared with her.

We are going through a hard and bleak period and for now, find ourselves at a loss for words. We wish that Gökçen were still with us and not merely living on in our memories. Navigating this loss is difficult.

For this reason, we will be taking a temporary break from our publications and programmes.

Chute will continue it’s existence in a more “planned and organised” way, the way Gökçen always envisioned for us to, and we will bring to life all the programmes she designed and wanted to execute, with the utmost care and dedication.

Gökçen, we will love you dearly throughout our lives, in every detail we see. Wir werden dich so sehr vermissen, unsere Liebste 💛

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖!We’re so delighted to share our interview with the wonderful James Fotopoulos, conducted by the Chute team...
20/07/2026

𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐈𝐍𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐕𝐈𝐄𝐖!

We’re so delighted to share our interview with the wonderful James Fotopoulos, conducted by the Chute team, now available on our website alongside 𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞: Films by James Fotopoulos.

Whether you read it before or after watching the program, we hope you’ll take a look.

𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞 is available to stream free on our website until 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐲 𝟑𝟏.

🔥 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖 🔥We are very happy to announce our new film program:𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬Not nightmares,...
17/07/2026

🔥 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖 🔥

We are very happy to announce our new film program:
𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬

Not nightmares, but dark dreams. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, James Fotopoulos forged a singular cinematic language where images become passages into inner states, created through instinct, shaped by experimentation, and an exploration of the unseen layers beneath the surface.

The program presents 14 works, tracking a period in which Fotopoulos explored cinema as a space between the external world and the hidden depths of the mind. Bodies appear and dissolve, spaces lose their stability, and sound moves through the image as a physical presence. Through gestures, sensations, and transformations, these works reveal cinema as a surface where invisible tensions become visible.

Using varying techniques and forms, Fotopoulos explores the unstable threshold between body and image: grain, video noise, silence, darkness, and sudden flashes of light become elements of a cinema that is both tactile and elusive, searching for what lies beneath the visible.

Developed in close collaboration with James Fotopoulos, this program offers an encounter with one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices. We are deeply grateful to James for his generosity, trust, and enthusiasm in making this program possible.

𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐒:

The Vanished, 2000
Drowning, 2000
Consumed 1-5, 2001
Growth, 1999
The Hemispheres, 2003
Insect, 2001
Faces, 2003,
Places, 2004
Sea Storm, 2003
The Exiled Bird, 2003

𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 is available to watch for free at chutecoop.com from 17–31 July.

13/07/2026

🔥 𝐍𝐄𝐖 𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐌 🔥

We are very happy to announce our new film program:
𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬

Not nightmares, but dark dreams. Between the late 1990s and early 2000s, James Fotopoulos forged a singular cinematic language where images become passages into inner states, shaped by instinct, experimentation, and an exploration of the unseen layers beneath the surface.

Bringing together 14 works across 16mm and digital formats, Inner Surface traces a period in which Fotopoulos explored cinema as a space between the external world and the hidden movements of the mind. Bodies appear and dissolve, spaces lose their stability, and sound moves through the image as a physical presence. Through gestures, sensations, and transformations, these works reveal cinema as a surface where invisible tensions become visible.

Moving between different techniques and forms, the films explore the unstable threshold between body and image, sensation and thought, the visible and the forces that unsettle it. Grain, video noise, silence, darkness, and sudden flashes of light become elements of a cinema that is both tactile and elusive, searching for what lies beneath the visible.

Developed in close collaboration with James Fotopoulos, this program offers an encounter with one of contemporary cinema’s most distinctive voices. We are deeply grateful to James for his generosity, trust, and enthusiasm in making this program possible.

𝐅𝐈𝐋𝐌𝐒:

The Vanished, 2000
Drowning, 2000
Consumed 1-5, 2001
Growth, 1999
The Hemispheres, 2003
Insect, 2001
Faces, 2003,
Places, 2004
Sea Storm, 2003
The Exiled Bird, 2003

𝐈𝐧𝐧𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐮𝐫𝐟𝐚𝐜𝐞: 𝐅𝐢𝐥𝐦𝐬 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐚𝐦𝐞𝐬 𝐅𝐨𝐭𝐨𝐩𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐬 will be available to watch for free at chutecoop.com from 17–31 July.

curated by Baran ()
trailer by Batuhan ()

We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of dear Yervant Gianikian.To him, and to Angela Ricci Lucchi, we remain ...
06/07/2026

We were deeply saddened to learn of the passing of dear Yervant Gianikian.

To him, and to Angela Ricci Lucchi, we remain endlessly grateful for their singular cinematic language, for their “analytical camera”, for their never ending journeys, for their love, for the way they wove the violence of an entire century into art with extraordinary intelligence, for tracing the footprints of colonialism across countless landscapes, step by step, and for leaving behind an extraordinary body of films, diaries, and a some “cute” drawings we would like to share with you today.

Thank you so much. Rest in peace❤️

Did you know that the garden we planted at Chute about a year ago is still blooming on our website?𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞, ...
03/07/2026

Did you know that the garden we planted at Chute about a year ago is still blooming on our website?

𝐆𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐥𝐚𝐩𝐬𝐞, our collection of films by John Nash Ott, continues to flourish on the Cine-Biology page of our Chute Open series. Stop by from time to time and do not forget to check in on how the garden is doing.

About John Nash Ott:

The John Nash Ott Collection spans decades of Ott’s prolific filmmaking hobby-turned-career, including episodes of his weekly 1950s television series How Does Your Garden Grow?, elements from his self-distributed educational films on a range of topics including the benefits of full-spectrum light, and Kodachrome time-lapse footage of flowers blooming that he brought with him for his lectures at garden clubs across the country.
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Dr. John Nash Ott (October 23, 1909 – April 12, 2000) was a photographer and cinematographer who developed many modern photographic practices, including time-lapse photography and full-spectrum lighting.

Initially, Ott’s interest in time-lapse movie photography, mostly of plants, was just a hobby. Starting in the 1930s, Ott bought and built more and more time-lapse equipment, eventually building a large greenhouse full of plants, cameras, and even self-built automated electric moving camera systems (the first movie camera motion control systems ever built) for moving the cameras to follow the growth of plants as they developed. He even time-lapsed his entire greenhouse of plants and cameras as they all worked, a virtual symphony of time-lapse movement. His work was featured on an episode of the second incarnation of the request TV show, You Asked For It, in the late 1950s.

As an extension of 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚: 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅, we’d like to publish this letter dated 1985 by Jim Hubbard: “...
29/06/2026

As an extension of 𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚: 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅, we’d like to publish this letter dated 1985 by Jim Hubbard: “Philosophy of Filmmaking”.

When we asked him about it, Hubbard shared: “I wrote this so long ago, but I think my practice has continued to reflect these ideas and ideals.“

We can’t wait to read and watch more of your work, dearest Jim!

💞𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚: 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅 can still be screened for free until June 30 on chutecoop.com 💞

🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱🌱

𝑨𝒃𝒐𝒖𝒕 𝑩𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒇 𝑬𝒏𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒔
Is something you watched haunting you? Brief Encounters is an open film circle where everyone is welcomed to send in reflections on something they watched. A confession, a first impression, a doodle, a vibe-dump, a thought you just need to put out there. Anything goes!

Send contributions to [email protected] or dm us.

Check chutefilm.substack.com for more info on Brief Encounters.

𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 🎈Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and political perspective, the film creat...
27/06/2026

𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄

𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚 𝒊𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑺𝒕𝒓𝒆𝒆𝒕𝒔 🎈

Exploring the AIDS crisis from both a personal and political perspective, the film creates a cinematic elegy through a procession of mourners, a catalog of flowers, a visit to the underworld, and other poetic devices. It intertwines two central motifs: the memory of filmmaker Roger Jacoby, who died of AIDS, and the emergence of a collective response to the epidemic. Beginning with the mourning of a candlelight vigil and the AIDS Quilt, the film traces the growing militancy of ACT UP through the New York City Gay Pride March and a series of increasingly confrontational demonstrations, culminating in a protest during a baseball game and the hopeful thumbs up of a teenager wearing a Silence = Death button.

The film is nearly 30 minutes long and entirely silent for three reasons. First, it literalizes the phrase “Silence = Death.” Second, in the constant noise of New York City, silence is a rare luxury. Finally, the absence of sound allows the visual language to take precedence, inviting each viewer to experience the film personally rather than through emotions directed by a soundtrack.

𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚: 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅

From 25–30 June, the collective presents a free online screening of two early works by Jim Hubbard:

Elegy in the Streets (1989) & A Valentine for Nelson (1990)

Through their differing narrative forms and scales, the films reflect on love, loss, memory, and the experience of existing together. The program gets its name from love and elegy, feelings that move at different rhythms within q***r culture, yet remain intertwined as coexisting forms of struggle.

Screening between 25-30 June on chutecoop.com.

💖💖💖

A big thank you to Jim Hubbard, who has made this program possible by granting us access to his work. He is a filmmaker and an activist, coordinating the ACT UP Oral History Project ( & ) an archive of 187+ interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

Visit the archive on actuporalhistory.org.

For more on Jim Hubbard and his work, visit the artist’s website: jimhubbardfilms.com.

𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄𝐀 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 🌹A short meditation on the nature of building relationships. A long overdue love letter...
26/06/2026

𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄

𝐀 𝐕𝐚𝐥𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐍𝐞𝐥𝐬𝐨𝐧 🌹

A short meditation on the nature of building relationships.

A long overdue love letter. A relationship is as hard to build as a cathedral — it takes more than one lifetime. A film in which virtually every shot is intended as a metaphor. Tender, loving and unsentimental.

“This five-minute charmer is a tribute to relationships, the ups and downs of being in love and living together.” — Jeff Lunger

𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚: 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅

From 25–30 June, the collective presents a free online screening of two early works by Jim Hubbard:

Elegy in the Streets (1989) & A Valentine for Nelson (1990)

Through their differing narrative forms and scales, the films reflect on love, loss, memory, and the experience of existing together. The program gets its name from love and elegy, feelings that move at different rhythms within q***r culture, yet remain intertwined as coexisting forms of struggle.

Screening between 25-30 June on chutecoop.com.

💖💖💖

A big thank you to Jim Hubbard, who has made this program possible by granting us access to his work. He is a filmmaker and an activist, coordinating the ACT UP Oral History Project ( & ) an archive of 187+ interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

Visit the archive on actuporalhistory.org.

For more on Jim Hubbard and his work, visit the artist’s website: jimhubbardfilms.com.

𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖🔥🌈𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚: 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅From 25–30 June, the collective presents a free online screening of tw...
25/06/2026

𝐎𝐍𝐋𝐈𝐍𝐄 𝐍𝐎𝐖🔥🌈

𝑳𝒐𝒗𝒆 & 𝑬𝒍𝒆𝒈𝒚: 𝒕𝒘𝒐 𝒇𝒊𝒍𝒎𝒔 𝒃𝒚 𝑱𝒊𝒎 𝑯𝒖𝒃𝒃𝒂𝒓𝒅

From 25–30 June, the collective presents a free online screening of two early works by Jim Hubbard:

Elegy in the Streets (1989) & A Valentine for Nelson (1990)

Through their differing narrative forms and scales, the films reflect on love, loss, memory, and the experience of existing together. The program gets its name from love and elegy, feelings that move at different rhythms within q***r culture, yet remain intertwined as coexisting forms of struggle.

Screening between 25-30 June on chutecoop.com.

💖💖💖

A big thank you to Jim Hubbard, who has made this program possible by granting us access to his work. He is a filmmaker and an activist, coordinating the ACT UP Oral History Project ( & ) an archive of 187+ interviews with surviving members of the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power.

Visit the archive on actuporalhistory.org.

For more on Jim Hubbard and his work, visit the artist’s website: jimhubbardfilms.com.

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