THE FILMS OF JOCELYNE SAAB

These three films, each in their own specific way, evince Saab’s determination never to severe radical politics from the biographies of those that embrace it and whose existences are changed as a result. The biopolitical spawn of internationalist love and solidarity, Mei Shigenobu is the daughter of a PFLP guerrilla leader and the Japanese Red Army leader Fusako Shigenobu. Just like Dr. Hoa, the Vietnamese doctor and revolutionary at the center of THE LADY OF SAIGON, Mei’s mother lent her entire life to the armed fight for liberation. On the run and living in Beirut clandestinely, Fusako Shigenobu brought new life in and to the struggle. The very conception of life, and the body that first nurtures it and then delivers it to the world, is both the subject and the setting of FÉCONDATION IN VIDEO which observes emancipation from the phallic masculinity through artificial insemination.

FERTILIZATION IN VIDEO / FÉCONDATION IN VIDEO
1991, 23 min, video

THE LADY OF SAIGON / LA DAME DE SAIGON
1997, 61 min, video

MY NAME IS MEI SHIGENOBU
2018, 7 min, digital

Total running time: ca. 95 min.