Subversive Film: An Exercise in Assembling

Subversive Film is a cinema research and production collective based between Brussels and Ramallah, that aims to cast new light upon historical works related to Palestine and the region, to engender support for film preservation, and to investigate archival practices. At de Appel, Subversive Film presents an expanded form of their work An Exercise In Assembling, an inflection of film programming and film assemblage. It is built from films of militant form produced as part of differing liberation struggles, anti colonial struggles, social movements fighting for civil rights, and workers and immigrant rights. An Exercise in Assembling weaves together scenes/ fragments in which bodies gather, come together, assemble to generate a force, a movement in a space—both actual and cinematic—against forms of colonial, imperial, capitalist, class, and gender violence . These scenes are taken from films from across different revolutionary cine-geographies including Palestine, Cuba, Algiers, Western Sahara, Guinea Bissau, Vietnam, France among others.

In collaboration with NW, Open House for Contemporary Art.