Item #5255 Sekigun-PFLP: Sekai Senso Sengen [The Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War]

Sekigun-PFLP: Sekai Senso Sengen [The Red Army/PFLP: Declaration of World War]

np: np, [1971]. Item #5255

Two-color offset on yellow stock. 28 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. Creases from rolling, else near fine.

Returning from the Cannes Film Festival, Masao Adachi and Koji Wakamatsu stopped in Lebanon to create a documentary capturing the life of Palestinian militant revolutionaries. The film records the refugee camps as well as the training and theory of the revolutionary socialist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) and the Japanese Red Army. Adachi uses his noted documentary style of landscape theory, capturing the geography of the land in question as leading militants like Fusako Shigenobu, Mieko Toyama, Ghassan Kanafani and Leila Khaled discuss strategy and politics. Filmed and released just one year before the infamous and deadly attack by the Red Army at the Lod Airport near Tel Aviv, Declaration of World War captures a moment of revolutionary optimism and the push for transnational militant communism in the early 1970s. Just three years after producing this documentary, Adachi would leave filmmaking and go underground as a Red Army militant for the next 30 years before resurfacing in the late 90s. Alternatively translated as "Manifesto for World Revolution." An exceptional document of radical filmmaking and militancy.

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