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    [EFF19S5] Session 5: A Feeling Greater Than Love, Mary Jirmanus Saba

    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF19S5] Session 5: A Feeling Greater Than Love, Mary Jirmanus Saba. Birkbeck College, University of London. doi: https://doi.org/10.18743/DATA.00000311

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    29 March 2019, 20:30, ICA Cinema

    Film: A Feeling Greater Than Love [Shu'our Akbar Min el Hob], Mary Jirmanus Saba, Lebanon, 2017, DCP, 93 minutes, Arabic with English subtitles

    Mary Jirmanus Saba’s first feature-length film is a poignant essayistic enquiry into the political activism of factory workers, especially women, in Lebanon before the outbreak of the civil war in 1975. The film focuses particularly on two major factory workers’ strikes – one in a chocolate factory, the other in a tobacco factory – investigating the memories that remain of these largely forgotten events and the people who fought for their dignity in the face of deep-rooted injustice and longstanding oppression. Through present-day interviews and discussions alongside archival footage, Jirmanus Saba constructs a lucid and informative conversation between past and present, questioning why this type of popular activism now seems to belong to a lost era. Drawing proudly on Lebanon’s militant filmmaking tradition, A Feeling Greater Than Love seeks to reconstruct the spirit of the workers’ revolts, looking to the past to enquire as to how we might transform the present.

    This screening was followed by a discussion between director Mary Jirmanus Saba and filmmaker and researcher Alisa Lebow, University of Sussex.

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    1 - EFF19S5 Introduction (EFF19S5 Mary Jirmanus Saba Feeling Greater Than Love introduction 29-3-2019.MP3)

    2 - EFF19S5 Q&A (EFF19S5 Mary Jirmanus Saba Feeling Greater Than Love Q&A 29-3-2019.MP3)

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    [EFF19S5] Session 5: A Feeling Greater Than Love, Mary Jirmanus Saba
    Creators:

    Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew
    Dataset Contributors:

    ContributionNameEmailORCID
    CollaboratorMcCabe, Janetj.mccabe@bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2916-9876
    CollaboratorYapp, Emmaeyapp01@student.bbk.ac.ukORCID logohttps://orcid.org/0000-0002-2646-6066
    CollaboratorFreeman, Nicolasnicolasfreeman@outlook.comUNSPECIFIED
    Subjects:

    Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication
    Data collection method:

    The Essay Film Festival, active since 2015, presents a global range of contemporary and restored essayistic works. The events are now archived here for research purposes.
    Collection period:

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    29 March 201929 March 2019
    Statement on legal, ethical, and access issues:

    All film stills were provided by participating artists.
    Depositing User: Emma Yapp
    Date Deposited: 07 Jul 2026 14:13
    Last Modified: 07 Jul 2026 14:14
    Publisher: Birkbeck College, University of London

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    Cite as: Temple, Michael and Barrington, Matthew (2023): [EFF19S5] Session 5: A Feeling Greater Than Love, Mary Jirmanus Saba. Birkbeck College, University of London. doi: https://doi.org/10.18743/DATA.00000311

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