JOIN THE CENTER FOR PALESTINE STUDIES for a screening of R21 aka Restoring Solidarity, followed by a talk by Mohanad Yaqubi (filmmaker) and a Q&A. Introduction by Nadine Fattaleh.
LOCATION
Dodge Hall 511
2960 Broadway
New York, NY 10027
While traveling around the world to present his previous film, Off Frame, an all-archival exhumation of Palestinian revolutionary cinema, Yaqubi met someone who claimed to have a voluminous collection of pro-Palestinian work ... in Japan. Using that footage, R 21 aka Restoring Solidarity offers a fascinating, eclectic, and inspiring survey of cross-continental solidarity. Some are imported, dubbed, and re-edited films from Palestine, others are Japanese-made documents, replete with location interviews with PLO leaders and frontline reporting, made for leftists agitating for upheaval in their own country. Yaqubi maintains every layer of overdubbing and subtitling, letting the transferals, transmutations, and identifications leave marks on the record, like fossil impressions on the celluloid. Sporadically, a contemporary voice weighs in on the soundtrack—a call for, and a reclamation of, collective resistance.
Mohanad Yaqubi is a Palestinian filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the Ramallah-based production house Idioms Film. Yaqubi also is one of the founders of the research and curatorial collective Subversive Films, which focuses on militant film practices, and a founding member of the Palestine Film Institute. His film No Exit (2015, written with Omar Kheiry) premiered at the Dubai International Film Festival. His feature Off Frame aka Revolution Until Victory (2016), screened at TIFF, Berlinale, cinema du reel, Dubai IFF, and other festivals worldwide. Since 2017, he has been a resident researcher at the School of the Art (KASK) in Gent, Belgium.
Palestine Cuts 2022-23 Curators
Nadine Fattaleh is a Palestinian writer and researcher from Amman, Jordan. She previously worked on projects at the Center for Spatial Research, Studio-X Amman, and MMAG Foundation. In 2021-2, she was the OSUN Fellow in Human Rights and the Arts at Bard College. She is currently a PhD student in Media, Culture and Communications at New York University. Nadine is a member of the Palestinian Social Fund as well as the editorial collective of Science for the People Magazine.
Nasreen Abd Elal is a multidisciplinary graphic designer, illustrator, and researcher whose work centers on the intersection of graphic design and justice-oriented movement work. She works as an information designer at Visualizing Palestine. She graduated with a degree in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University in 2020.
Palestine Cuts is generously supported by Jeanne and Ken Levy-Church.