The Tokyo Reels, a project by Subversive Film (Mohanad Yaqubi and Reem Shilleh), was first exhibited as an installation and mini film festival at documenta fifteen. This collection of 20 films depicting the Palestinian struggle was safeguarded for decades by Japanese activists before its preservation by Subversive Film. Following its restoration, the collection served as the basis for R21 Aka Restoring Solidarity (2022), set to have its North American premiere at this year’s True/False Film Festival. In November 2022, as R21 was having its world premiere at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, we spoke with Yaqubi on transnational film […]
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The post “A Militant Archiving Process”: Mohanad Yaqubi on R21 Aka Restoring Solidarity first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/28/2023
- by Sophia Haid, Finn Jubak and Andrei Vilcov
- Filmmaker Magazine - Blog
The Tokyo Reels, a project by Subversive Film (Mohanad Yaqubi and Reem Shilleh), was first exhibited as an installation and mini film festival at documenta fifteen. This collection of 20 films depicting the Palestinian struggle was safeguarded for decades by Japanese activists before its preservation by Subversive Film. Following its restoration, the collection served as the basis for R21 Aka Restoring Solidarity (2022), set to have its North American premiere at this year’s True/False Film Festival. In November 2022, as R21 was having its world premiere at the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam, we spoke with Yaqubi on transnational film […]
The post “A Militant Archiving Process”: Mohanad Yaqubi on R21 Aka Restoring Solidarity first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
The post “A Militant Archiving Process”: Mohanad Yaqubi on R21 Aka Restoring Solidarity first appeared on Filmmaker Magazine.
- 2/28/2023
- by Sophia Haid, Finn Jubak and Andrei Vilcov
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Panel discussed the challenges of making different kinds of films in Palestine.
Film-makers discussed the extreme challenges of making movies in Palestine cinema at Iffr’s Picture Palestine programme - part of the overarching Perspectives section.
Jumana Manna’s music documentary A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (pictured), Ihab Jadallah’s shorts Flower Seller and The Shooter and Reem Shilleh’s archive collective Perpetual Recurrences were showcased at the event.
Film programmer Nat Muller told Screen the work of Palestinian film-makers is more important than ever with today’s complex political realities, and was pleased that there are more women and men, living both in and out of Palestine, making films within the region.
Shilleh, Manna and Jadallah highlighted in a panel, however, that there is also a need to move on from the region’s ongoing upheaval.
“Because of this unwillingness to fix certain stereotypes in Palestinian cinema, there seems to be this regression in film-making...
Film-makers discussed the extreme challenges of making movies in Palestine cinema at Iffr’s Picture Palestine programme - part of the overarching Perspectives section.
Jumana Manna’s music documentary A Magical Substance Flows Into Me (pictured), Ihab Jadallah’s shorts Flower Seller and The Shooter and Reem Shilleh’s archive collective Perpetual Recurrences were showcased at the event.
Film programmer Nat Muller told Screen the work of Palestinian film-makers is more important than ever with today’s complex political realities, and was pleased that there are more women and men, living both in and out of Palestine, making films within the region.
Shilleh, Manna and Jadallah highlighted in a panel, however, that there is also a need to move on from the region’s ongoing upheaval.
“Because of this unwillingness to fix certain stereotypes in Palestinian cinema, there seems to be this regression in film-making...
- 2/1/2017
- ScreenDaily
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