A Labor Theory of Artistic Value

<h2 class="h2">Synopsis</h2> <p>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.</p> <h2 class="h2">About the Director</h2> <p>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 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 <i>A Feeling Greater Than Love</i> won the FIPRESCI Critics Prize at the 2017 Berlinale Forum. From 2006-2008, she co-produced the weekly broadcast television program <i>Vía Comunidad</i> with Collective Vientos del Sur in Ibarra, Ecuador.</p>