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
Ali (@ali.i.j) is a filmmaker, curator, and organizer. His work is concerned with the (re)production & contextualization of movement memory. He is the creator of cinemóvil nyc, a mobile cinema collective committed to carving out spaces of radical political encounter & expanding the relevancy of cinema within movement spaces.
Raiya Al-Nsour is a curator at the Palestine Film Series.
Karim Elhaies is an Egyptian American multilingual graduate student of Middle Eastern Studies, History, and Cinema. He teaches Arabic language and Arab cinema classes at several New York colleges and universities. Believing that language structures social lives, he is interested in teaching Arabic language as well as Arab history (cinema, culture, etc.) in light of the various political, cultural, and economic factors that manufactured the social fabric of the modern Arab World.
