The University of the Philippines (UP) Film Institute will be screening Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) by Mohanad Yaqubi on Tuesday, October 24, and Thursday, October 26, 5PM, at the Cine Adarna, UP Diliman, Quezon City. This is part of the UPFI Film Center's mandate to address the university constituency's educational needs relating to film and moving images. Programmed by Associate Professor Patrick F. Campos, the film is hoped to offer a broad historical context and provide a point of reflection and discussion for current conflict in the Middle East.
SYNOPSIS
Showcasing an unprecedented depth of research and access, Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory is a unique historical portrait in the Third Cinema tradition of "imperfect films" of the Palestinian people's struggle to produce their own image from the 1960s to the 1980s. Using material long hidden in archives across the globe, this hybrid archival documentary reaches back through the modern history of Palestine and reverses the colonial angle with a mosaic of struggle from the perspective of the colonized.
DIRECTOR'S BIO
Mohanad Yaqubi is a filmmaker, producer, and co-founder of the Ramallah-based production Idioms Film and the curatorial collective Subversive Films, which focuses on militant film practices. Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. His latest, R21 AKA Restoring Solidarity (2022), features archival films of the Palestinian struggle deposited in Japan which he helped restore, and is currently being shown in international venues and film festivals.
TRAILER:
Admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration starts at 4PM.
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