September 1977. The Japanese man speaks in halting English; the Bangladeshi negotiator, with the clipped confidence of an army officer. A color scheme suggests order in the exchange: green, red, and the occasional white. But underneath the schema of a dark screen-subtitle sans image-lies a waiting unraveling. The Japanese Red Army had attached to the Palestinian cause, and through that to an idea of global pan-Arabism. But the high-value hostage turned out to be an Armenian b... (Full plot summary below)
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September 1977. The Japanese man speaks in halting English; the Bangladeshi negotiator, with the clipped confidence of an army officer. A color scheme suggests order in the exchange: green, red, and the occasional white. But underneath the schema of a dark screen-subtitle sans image-lies a waiting unraveling. The Japanese Red Army had attached to the Palestinian cause, and through that to an idea of global pan-Arabism. But the high-value hostage turned out to be an Armenian banker from California, and the Democratic Party Congressman on honeymoon negotiated a call to the White House, only to be greeted by Jimmy Carter's answering service. The hostage terrain was not an "Islamic Republic," as the hijackers thought, but a turbulent new country ricocheting between polarities and imploding in the process. Two years earlier, the country had gone through a trio of military coups, decimating, in turn, the country's founder and Prime Minister Mujibur Rahman, his family, a group of freedom-fighter army officers, and finally, a Leftist insurgency group within the army. Instead of being the willing platform for the Japanese Red Army's ideas of "Third World revolution," the actual Third World hit back in unexpected ways, turning the hijackers into helpless witnesses. The lead negotiator, code name "Dankesu," says with baffled understatement and halting English: "I understand you have some internal problems." An eight-year-old watches the television screen with growing confusion-the screen shows an unmoving control tower for hours on end, and he wants his favorite show to start again. United Red Army premiered at the Sharjah Biennial in 2011. Sarinah Masukor described the film's structure, specifically the archival images, as "ever on the verge of collapsing into abstraction, their materiality performs the indeterminacy of the event they record" (West Space). The film is in the collections of the Tate Modern Museum (UK) and the Kiran Nadar Museum (India).
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