How did you approach that film? Obviously there’s a good spread of different material with all the archival footage. I wanted to start off by talking about Off Frame. And also, of course, Casey is associate producer of the other two documentaries that we produced at Idioms Film over the last three years. So there’s actually a continuous collaboration on different films. Casey is producing as well as directing an amazing film with his co-director, and they’re making a film that I’m producing with Idioms Film. I was around then, when the editing was going on. But was it also on Off Frame (2016) that you did some work with us?Ĭasey Asprooth-Jackson: Yeah. So we worked on another production together-several advertisements, commercials. Mohanad Yaqubi: Yeah, it was an Idioms Film collaboration.
And there was an outdoor cinema projecting Viva Zalata (1976).Ĭasey Asprooth-Jackson: -of Viva Zipata (1956). That was in Palestine, in Ramallah.Ĭasey Asprooth-Jackson: Exactly. Mohanad Yaqubi: 2015? 2014? Something like that.Ĭasey Asprooth-Jackson: The Riwaq Biennale, right? It’s been a long time now.Ĭasey Asprooth-Jackson: It’s been some years. Mohanad Yaqubi : Oh, do you remember Casey? Joshua Minsoo Kim : When did you two first start collaborating, and how did that come about?
On March 12th, 2023 via Zoom, Joshua Minsoo Kim talked with Yaqubi and producer Casey Asprooth-Jackson about how they stumbled upon these 20 films, the creation of R 21, their long-standing collaboration, militant cinema, politics of representation, and more. R 21 had its North American premiere at this year’s True/False Film Festival, and later played at MoMI’s First Look. It features 20 films made between 19 about the Palestinian struggle that was safeguarded for decades by Japanese activists before their preservation by Subversive Film. His feature-length debut Off Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory (2016) utilizes archival footage of the Palestinian people to present a “mosaic of struggle from the perspective of the colonized.” His newest film R 21 AKA Restoring Solidarity (2022) originally began as a project titled the Tokyo Reels that was presented as an installation and mini film festival at Documenta Fifteen.
He is also a co-founder of Subversive Film, a research and curatorial collective that focuses on militant film practices. Mohanad Yaqubi is a Palestinian filmmaker, producer, and one of the founders of the independent, Ramallah-based production studio Idioms Film.
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