L'anabase de May et Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi et 27 années sans images
The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi, and 27 Years without Images
Eric Baudelaire – F 2011 – 66 min.
R+B+K+P+V: Eric Baudelaire – S: Eric Baudelaire, Laure Vermeersch – SD: Diego Eiguchi, Philippe Welsh
Super-8, HD video
Who are May and Fusako Shigenobu? Fusako — leader of an extremist left-wing faction, the Japanese Red Army, involved in a number of terrorist operations — has been in hiding in Beirut for almost 30 years. May, her daughter, born in Lebanon, only discovered Japan at the age of twenty-seven, after her mother’s arrest in 2000. And Masao Adachi? A screenwriter and radical activist filmmaker, committed to armed struggle and the Palestinian cause, was also underground in Lebanon for several decades before being sent back to his native country. In his years as a film director, he had been one of the instigators of a 'theory of landscape' — fukeiron: through filming landscapes, Adachi sought to reveal the structures of oppression that underpin and perpetuate the political system. Anabasis? The name given, since Xenophon, to wandering, circuitous homeward journeys. – Jean-Pierre Rehm
Eric Baudelaire, born in Salt-Lake-City, USA, in Eric Baudelaire, geb. 1973 in Salt-Lake-City, USA, lives and works in Paris. He is working in photography, video, print making and installation.
Films: [SIC] 2008 – The Makes 2009 – The Anabasis 2011