70 minutes that will radicalize your understanding of 'propaganda' — Cannes to guerrilla warfare, no passport required.
On their way back from the Cannes Film Festival in 1971, filmmakers Wakamatsu Koji and Adachi Masao visited Lebanon to meet Japan's Red Army faction and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine to shoot a newsreel film promoting the Palestinian resistance. Conceived as a ‘declaration of world war’ that implicates us all, the directors capture the everyday banality of military training and preparation exercises for imminent battle.
Direction
Adachi and Wakamatsu's dangerous blur of observation and participation.
Cinematography
Grainy 16mm that aestheticizes training drills into almost-dance.
Writing
The 'declaration' itself — text as call to arms.
Director
Masao Adachi
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
JP
