Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere | III. Images of Resistance from Elsewhere
Mohanad Yaqubi, Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory
Mohanad Yaqubi
2016
62 Minutes
Courtesy of Idioms Film, Ramallah
Date
Repeat: Wednesday, February 16
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory is a meditation on the Palestinian people’s struggle to produce an image and self-representation on their own terms in the 1960s and 1970s, with the establishment of the Palestine Film Unit as part of the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization). Unearthing films stored in archives across the world after an unprecedented research and access, the film begins with popular representations of modern Palestine and traces the works of militant filmmakers in reclaiming image and narrative through revolutionary and militant cinema. In resurrecting a forgotten memory of struggle, Off Frame reanimates what is within the frame, but also weaves a critical reflection by looking for what is outside it, or what is off-frame.
Mohanad Yaqubi’s Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory is presented within Images of Resistance from Elsewhere, the third of five chapters in Memories for Forgetfulness Elsewhere, an online film program curated by Irmgard Emmelhainz for e-flux Video & Film. The program streams in five thematic group screenings each two weeks long, and will be accompanied by two live discussions.
For more information, contact program@e-flux.com.