Mary Jirmanus Saba
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. Her feature film debut A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlinale Forum. With roots in community media, from 2006-2008, Mary coproduced the weekly broadcast television program Via Comunidad with Collective Vientos Del Sur in Ibarra, Ecuador. Mary’s various works have screened widely at venues ranging from community centers in South Lebanon, to the ICA in London, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Arkipel in Jakarta, Havana Flim Festival and student encampments throughout the US and UK.
Mary’s research and artistic practice 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. Mary’s work has been featured in E-flux journal, the Brooklyn Rail, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker and numerous academic publications. Mary holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and is a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
contact: maryjirmanus @ gmail.com
Mary is a member of the artist coop, ta3waniya / cooperative, a founder of the mutual aid Franz Fanon Cultural Fund. Her feature film debut A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlinale Forum. With roots in community media, from 2006-2008, Mary coproduced the weekly broadcast television program Via Comunidad with Collective Vientos Del Sur in Ibarra, Ecuador. Mary’s various works have screened widely at venues ranging from community centers in South Lebanon, to the ICA in London, Anthology Film Archives in New York, Arkipel in Jakarta, Havana Flim Festival and student encampments throughout the US and UK.
Mary’s research and artistic practice 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. Mary’s work has been featured in E-flux journal, the Brooklyn Rail, TIME Magazine, The New Yorker and numerous academic publications. Mary holds a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley and is a UC Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
contact: maryjirmanus @ gmail.com
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