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A Feeling Greater Than Love

(Shu’our akbar min al hob, Mary Jirmanus Saba, 2017, Lebanon)

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Mar 19, 2021–Mar 26, 2021
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Mary Jirmanus Saba’s feature-length debut, A Feeling Greater Than Love revives a forgotten moment in Lebanese history to explore the possibilities for social reform today.

In 1973, simultaneous strikes in Lebanon’s Gandour chocolate factory and Regie tobacco factory offered a brief moment of recognition for workers’ rights and the possibility of women’s emancipation. But whatever momentum was achieved was thwarted by the outbreak of the civil war in 1975 and the political strife that followed. Mining the remaining memories of these events, A Feeling Greater Than Love offers a pointed inquiry into the forgotten—and sometimes suppressed—histories of the Lebanese workers’ movement.

Drawing on the rich history of Lebanese militant cinema, Jirmanus Saba weaves together archival footage, images, and interviews with former organizers, producing a lucid conversation between the past and the present. Through its rich construction, the film questions how the legacies of popular revolution remain confined to the past, asking us to consider how encountering these histories could reinvigorate and transform the present moment. A Feeling Greater Than Love won the FIPRESCI International Film Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlin International Film Festival. In Arabic with English subtitles. (99 mins., video)

Jirmanus Saba joins us to discuss the film as part of the Signs of Remembering Series. Watch the conversation free on this site.

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A farm landscape at dusk with a car driving on the pathway.

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Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts and curated by Ohio State History of Art graduate student Dareen Hussein and Film/Video Curatorial Assistant Layla Muchnik-Benali.

This series was made possible with support from the Global Arts and Humanities Discovery Theme Fellowship.

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A portrait photo of Mary Jirmanus Saba.
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A Conversation with Mary Jirmanus Saba

Fri, Mar 19, 2021
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Signs of Remembering: Dareen Hussein on Assia Djebar

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Signs of Remembering: Layla Muchnik-Benali on Elles & Lettre à Ma Soeur

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Past Film/Video

A Feeling Greater Than Love

Mar 19, 2021–Mar 26, 2021
Thursday's Hours 10AM–8PM
Online

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Free for all audiences

We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals, including individuals with disabilities, to engage fully. If you have questions about accessibility or require an accommodation such as captioning or ASL interpretation to participate in this event, please contact Accessibility Manager Helyn Marshall at accessibility@wexarts.org or (614) 688–3890. Requests made by two weeks in advance will generally allow us to provide seamless access, but the Wexner Center for the Arts will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

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