JOIN US for
MOVIE NIGHT #29

14th April
R21 aka Restoring Solidarity (2022)
by Mohanad Yaqubi
7 pm

discussion with yasmine eid-sabbagh

Abteilung Angewandte Fotografie
OKP - Schwanzer Trakt / 4. Stock - Stiege 2
Universität für Angewandte Kunst
Oskar-Kokoschka Platz 2, 1010 Wien


Film Synopsis:
An undelivered letter written by a Japanese activist that was lost on its way, has been found by a Palestinian filmmaker after 30 years. R21 aka Restoring Solidarity is a film about making a film. It's also a film about films that exist on the margins of documentary, fiction, and an archive. The set-up was to make a narrative out of a collection of 20 films, with the intention to send out a message of solidarity. It's an act of reaching out, of asking questions, an act of looking, together - the team behind the film and the audience - a gaze that gets entangled with speculations, politics, and the hopes of an era.
While lost in translation, the filmmaker is haunted by a voice that is comprehending the need to save these films and images, not by and for the Palestinian people only, but for the Japanese people as well. Placing such an archive of Palestinian films as part of the Japanese people's archive, at the same time, restores an account of solidarity that emerges throughout the narrative.


MOVIE NIGHTS is a screening series for a transdisciplinary exchange, that was initiated to oppose the persistent silence about the ongoing genocide in Palestine. Starting each time from one film we open the space for conversations about the relations between production of images and their conditions, involving modes of narration, authorship, history, politics and effects on society. We watch fiction, documentaries, movies and television productions focusing on filmmakers with antizionist and liberatory practices.

The movie nights are hosted and organized by the sections Applied Photography, Art and Communication Practices, Klasse für Alle, Philosophy, and Transcultural Studies at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.




Anhang 1: https://uni-ak.at/accounts/anhang/IKKK_2026_04_08_15_14_Movie_Nights__29.pdf