Film of the Week
A film every Wednesday at 5pm Jerusalem Time
Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016)
Documentary, 1h 5m
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. 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.
Director: Mohanad Yaqubi
Writers: Reem Shilleh & Mohanad Yaqubi
Editors: Ramzi Hazboun & David Osit
“Off Frame is a work that is unavoidably steeped in questions of the past but doubly functions as a reflection on our position as spectators “looking back” at history. ”