Join us on Saturday the 1st of August for a film screening fundraiser event for the Leonardo 3 at the People’s Letters Bookshop.
We will be screening R21 aka Restoring Solidarity (1h 11m) by Mohanad Yaqubi
R21 aka Restoring Solidarity is a film about making a film, a film about films that exist on the margins of documentary, fiction, and an archive.
R21 refers to The Reel no. 21, which comes as an addition to and a reflection on a collection of twenty 16mm films, safeguarded in Tokyo by the Japanese solidarity movement with Palestine. It’s an undelivered solidarity letter written by a Japanese activist that was lost on its way to a Palestinian filmmaker. Fragments of the letter are found throughout the collection and compiled into an imagined structure that reveals itself during the film.
R21 aka Restoring Solidarity acts as a catalogue, the film as a time machine, the film as an archive. The themes that Reel no. 21 deals with, reveal themselves in the form of a montage essay. At the same time, the act of restoring these films brings out motives, aspirations, and the disappearance of a generation and its struggles, not only in Japan, but around the world.
Alongside the film screening there will also be potluck, bring a dish to share There will be a raffle following the event to help us raise more funds, all the funds raised will go towards the Leonardo 3.
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Can't make it on the night? Please consider donating to Leonardo 3 solidarity fund.