02.12.24, 19:00, Mohanad Yaqubi, Recovered Images

In 2021, an Israeli filmmaker donated scanned material from Israeli army archives to the Palestine Film Institute as a form of recovery. The collection includes 35 digital clips, presumably from looted archives during the 1982 Israeli invasion of Beirut, including those from the Palestine Cinema Institute from the 1970s. The lecture-performance examines archiving as concern versus oblivion, translating relatedness into inventories, transcripts and captions. Mohanad Yaqubi, Palestinian filmmaker and co-founder of Idioms Film, researches militant cinema and has taught at KASK & Conservatorium since 2017.

Mohanad Yaqubi is affiliated as an artistic researcher to KASK & Conservatorium, the school of arts of HOGENT and howest. The research project Transnational Solidarity was financed by the HOGENT Arts Research Fund.