A Labor Theory of Artistic Value
by Mary Jirmanus Saba
USA, 2024
This is is available for free in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Western Sahara, Democratic Republic of Congo
synopsis
Mothers can do anything! (an artist tries to find the time to write a theoretical text). 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.
about the filmmakers
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 UAW Labor for Palestine, the People’s CDC, a founder of the mutual aid Frantz Fanon Cultural Fund, and currently, a UC Presidential Postdoc in Film and Media at UC Santa Cruz. Her feature debut A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlinale Forum. From 2006-2008, she co-produced the weekly broadcast television program Vía Comunidad with Collective Vientos del Sur in Ibarra, Ecuador.
