Inspired by the student revolutions of 1968, two women in Germany and Japan set out to
plot world revolution as leaders of the Baader Meinhof Group and the Japanese Red Army.
What were they fighting for and what have we learned?Read More »
Fusako Shigenobu
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Shane O’Sullivan – Children of the Revolution (2010)
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Masao Adachi & Kôji Wakamatsu – Sekigun-P.F.L.P: Sekai sensô sengen AKA Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War (1971)
1971-1980JapanKoji WakamatsuMasao AdachiPolitics
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It was a milestone of film as activism, cinema as movement in Japan’s context. Adachi and Wakamatsu went to Beirut on the way back from the Cannes Film Festival. There, in collaboration with the Red Army members and PFLP, they produced this newsreel film depicting the everyday activities of Arab guerrillas as a cinematic narrative on the world revolution. Being a fusion of intense agitation and the ‘landscape theory’ approach inherited from “Aka. Serial Killer,” the film was conceived as a new form of news report, and was discussed in synchronicity with J-L Godard’s Dziga Vertov Group and the revolutionary films of Latin America, transcending geographical distances.Read More »