Origin: France | Documentary | Director: Eric Baudelaire | 66 minutes

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The Anabasis

The Anabasis of May and Fusako Shigenobu, Masao Adachi and 27 Years Without
Images

Prior to embarking on a 27 year underground odyssey in the Middle East with
the Japanese Red Army (JRA), filmmaker Masao Adachi (Red Army/PFLP
Declaration of World War, 1971) proposed a "landscape theory", wherein film
imageries of scenery and landscape were to represent prevailing systems of
political power. Based in Lebanon from the early 1970s, Adachi grew close
to JRA founder Fusaku Shigenobu, whose daughter May was born at around this
time, growing up in hiding with a mother on the run. May was only able to
reveal her identity at the age of 27, following her mother's capture in
2000. Eric Baudelaire's film, shot in Super 8 and in the spirit of Adachi's
"landscape theory", sees him conducting a series of visual and textual
exchanges with May Shigenobu and Masao Adachi (living in Tokyo and unable
to return to Beirut since his own capture). The resulting work recounts
these astonishing personal stories while offering an aesthetically
distinctive meditation on the meeting of image, ideology, and memory.

http://www.vdrome.org/eric-baudelaire-anabasis-of-may-and-fusako-shigenobu-masao-adachi-and-27-years-without-images

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