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

A film on exile revolution landscapes and memory Anabasis brings forth the remarkable parallel stories of Adachi and May one a filmmaker who gave up images the other a young woman whose identityless existence forbade keeping images of her own life Fittingly returning the image to their lives director Eric Baudelaire places Adachi and Mays revelatory voiceover reminiscences against warm fragile Super8mm footage of their split milieus Tokyo and Beirut Grounding their wideranging reflections in a solid yet complex reality Anabasis provides a richly rewarding look at a fascinating now nearly forgotten era in politics and cinema reminding us of films own ability to portrayand influenceits landscape