Person
Mary Jirmanus Saba
Directing
Biography
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.
Known for
Dead Dog
Associate Producer
A Feeling Greater Than Love
Director
Notes for a Return
Writer
A Labor Theory of Artistic Value
2024
Mahdi Amel in Gaza: On the Colonial Mode of Production
Director
Filmography
- 2025Dead DogAssociate Producer
- 2024Mahdi Amel in Gaza: On the Colonial Mode of ProductionDirector
- 2024A Labor Theory of Artistic Value
- 2017A Feeling Greater Than LoveDirector
- 2013Notes for a ReturnWriter
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