Tokyo Reels: The Solidarity Image
Presented at documenta fifteen as a ten-hour looped installation by the collective Subversive Film, and later as a feature documentary by Mohanad Yaqubi, the multi-faceted research and restoration project Tokyo Reels reconstructs the solidarity networks connecting Japan to Palestine between the 1960s and 1980s, through twenty 16mm films found in Tokyo in 2015. Julian Ross meticulously locates the films’ circulation within the politicised sphere of post-war Japan, addressing them in terms of ‘solidarity image’, evidencing of a longstanding and worldwide commitment to the Palestinian cause.
