*Please note - masks will be required for the indoor screening*

TILT-SHIFT, referring to a pair of interactions between a camera lens and the image plane, is a new film series about moving images and politics. TILT-SHIFT invites guest filmmakers to screen their work alongside a film that helped inspire it, and discuss with audiences how their work connects to longer lineages of radical cinema and anti-capitalist, anti-imperialist struggle.

This monthly series, curated by UCSC Film and Digital Media PhD. student alex cruse, intends to connect conversations about aesthetics and form to work being done on the ground.

For its inaugural program, Indexical welcomes Mary Jirmanus Saba, a critical geographer and filmmaker whose work uncovers and explores histories of the Arab world and beyond. Saba's work will precede a screening of Christian Ghazi's 1972 experimental documentary Hundred Faces for a Single Day: "Rejecting all propagandistic or narrative convention, Ghazi combined documentary and abstract sequences with a series of discontinuous plot lines to organize an attack on the bourgeois decadence of Beirut’s political milieu." (Palestine Film Index)

Mary Jirmanus Saba
Mary Jirmanus Saba is a geographer and filmmaker. Her work has shown widely at venues ranging from Anthology Film Archives, the Berlinale and the London ICA to rural discussion screenings in South Lebanon and Palestine campus encampments across the US. She is a member of UAW Labor for Palestine, and the People's CDC and engaged in an ongoing collaborative artistic practice with Nada Ziane (b. 2019) and Seri Kamil (b. 2021).

video still credit: "A labor theory of artistic value, On Mothering and Artistic Genius (2024)"