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RED ARMY/PFLP: DECLARATION OF WORLD WAR
1971
Director
Kōji Wakamatsu
Masao Adachi
Starring
Runtime
70 minutes
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In 1971 filmmakers Kōji Wakamatsu and Masao Adachi met with Japan's Red Army faction in Lebanon as their forces joined with the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) to fight back the Zionist invasion.
During a time of mass upheaval around the world and plane hijacking as a popular means of struggle against empire, the filmmakers conceived of the film as a newsreel that would act as "a declaration of war".
Using lo-fi, gritty 'landscape theory' filmmaking and showcasing the revolutionaries on the ground building up the organizational capacity to take on the Israeli state, the filmmakers created a cinematic bridge between the struggles of the left in Japan in the 1970's and the struggle for Palestinian liberation. This rarely seen work is a milestone in militant filmmaking and vital testimony to an era of global revolutionary beginnings.
During a time of mass upheaval around the world and plane hijacking as a popular means of struggle against empire, the filmmakers conceived of the film as a newsreel that would act as "a declaration of war".
Using lo-fi, gritty 'landscape theory' filmmaking and showcasing the revolutionaries on the ground building up the organizational capacity to take on the Israeli state, the filmmakers created a cinematic bridge between the struggles of the left in Japan in the 1970's and the struggle for Palestinian liberation. This rarely seen work is a milestone in militant filmmaking and vital testimony to an era of global revolutionary beginnings.