Mary Jirmanus Saba Trailers

A Labor Theory of Artistic Value Trailer

Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer and artist who works across film, text, performance and political organizing to explore questions of labor, care and social movement in the Arab world and internationally. Mary is a member of the artist coop, ta3waniya / cooperative, a founder of the mutual aid Franz Fanon Cultural Fund and a UC Presidential Postdoc in Film and Media at UC Santa Cruz. Her feature film debut A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlinale Forum. From 2006-2008, she coproduced the weekly broadcast television program Via Comunidad with Collective Vientos Del Sur in Ibarra, Ecuador. Mary’s work has been supported by the US National Science Foundation, the Arab Fund for Arts and Culture, Fonds Internacional de la Francophonie, the Annenberg Innovation Lab at USC, the Harvard Film Studies Center among others.

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A Labor Theory of Artistic Value Trailer (2024)

03 January 2024

Exploring the intersections between gendered reproductive labor that keeps the cultural space in motion, and the reproductive labor of motherhood, A Labor Theory of Artistic Value, on Mothering and Art combines video projection, a delivered text, and a performative act of cultural maintenance.

Dead Dog Trailer (2025)

02 February 2025

Walid and Aida, husband and wife, are reunited after Walid’s many years spent living abroad. Answers to long-hidden secrets are sought in Sarah Francis’ careful unravelling of an estranged marriage.

Mahdi Amel in Gaza: On the Colonial Mode of Production Trailer (2024)

01 February 2024

Assassinated Lebanese intellectual Mahdi Amel — often dubbed “the Arab Gramsci” — famously said: “He who resists is never defeated.

Notes for a Return Trailer (2013)

15 October 2013

Nada and Rabieh are a Palestinian couple living far from the possibility of a homeland. A meditation on time, memory, and the distance from a dream.

A Feeling Greater Than Love Trailer (2017)

11 February 2017

A car with a loudspeaker on its roof is driving through southern Lebanon. The old man at the wheel is calling for people to join a demonstration to support their brothers and sisters who’ve occupied a tobacco company and are now being besieged by the army.