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[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="275"] Mattar’s original work is catalogued by the Palestine Poster Project Archives.[/caption]&#160;‘The World is With Us’: Global Film and Poster art from the Palestinian Revolution, 1968-1980 is a series of cinema and gallery events taking place in London from May 16 to June 14, 2014. These are the first public outcomes of an on-going film research and preservation programme managed by the Palestine Film Foundation.These events explore film and graphic design by artists engaging with the liberation movement in a period characterised by both political volatility and creative exuberance. The film work presented spans militant, experimental, and newsreel productions by Palestinian and international artists active from Buenos Aires to Belgrade. Posters meanwhile range from early party-political pieces to iconic illustrations by renowned artists.Venues and formatsThe project takes place in two venues and in two distinct formats. It opens with a screen programme at the Barbican Cinema, where some of the most striking films from the era are accompanied by daily screen talks with directors, composers, and more (May 16-18).This is followed by a gallery show at the Rich Mix venue (May 19-June 14), where further film is displayed along with a collection of posters from the revolutionary era. A series of public events including a symposium, a music performance, panel talks, and special screenings runs alongside the exhibition.Full details of cinema and gallery events can be viewed on the ‘Events‘ page.Why ‘The World is With Us‘?The project takes its name from a poster made by Muwaffaq Mattar for the Fatah movement in 1980. (Below; the red text reads “The World is With Us”, the upper text marks the “fifteenth anniversary of the launch of the revolution”.) Mattar’s poster stands out for the simplicity of is graphic and rhetorical content, the filmic echoes of its laurel motif, and the internationalism of its six-language rendition of ‘Palestine’. Resonant with the project in each respect.Consulter le site de l'événement