Talk with Mohanad Yaqubi

What makes a film political, militant, subversive, is not the image. It is the soundtrack, the medium that cannot be persecuted, the ghost that cannot be captured, that resides in the popular songs, the sound of bullets, the chants in demonstrations, in the voice over, between the lines in interviews with political leaderships, the sound of guerilla footsteps.

How can we “gaze” at these waves, and draw different perspectives associated with images and their poetics? Beyond the aesthetic politics of the visual, how can we think of sound as a landscape that can (re)arrange archival collections and their indexing, while at the same time influencing curatorial practices and programming of archival films and collections?