Directed by:
Callisto McNultyCast:
Delphine Seyrig (a.f.), Carole Roussopoulos (a.f.), Chantal Akerman (a.f.), Pierre Bellemare (a.f.), Juliet Berto (a.f.), Ellen Burstyn (a.f.) (more)Plots(1)
In the 1970s, legendary actress Delphine Seyrig could be seen on the big screen as a singing fairy, a lesbian vampire, an ethereal ambassador’s spouse, and a potato-peeling housewife. She was active as a feminist at the same time, which equally meant taking the camera into her own hands. Along with Carole Roussopoulos, she was one of the first video activists in France, not only documenting protests by the French women’s movement, but also using the new medium to counter the dominant representation of women on TV and elsewhere with their own images and commentaries. As part of this project of narrating their own stories, they held video workshops too and founded the feminist archive Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir. Making use of a generous selection of excerpts from feminist works by the video groups “Les Insoumuses” and “Video Out” as well as from talk shows featuring Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Duras, and Chantal Akerman among others, this film both writes a chapter in the history of feminism and traces the beginnings of a creative political practice that used boldness, humour, and subversion to unite collective action, media intervention, and archival documentation. (Berlinale)
(more)Cast
Delphine Seyrig (a.f.)
Lebanon
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
Stolen Kisses (1968)
Carole Roussopoulos (a.f.)
Switzerland
Chantal Akerman (a.f.)
Belgium
Best movies:
Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975)
I, You, He, She (1974)
Porto (2016)
Pierre Bellemare (a.f.)
France
Best movies:
Happenstance (2000)
Cherchez l'idole (1964)
Three Lives and Only One Death (1996)
Juliet Berto (a.f.)
France
Best movies:
Duelle (une quarantaine) (1976)
La Chinoise (1967)
Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
Ellen Burstyn (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
Requiem for a Dream (2000)
Interstellar (2014)
Same Time, Next Year (1978)
Simone de Beauvoir (a.f.)
France
Liliane de Kermadec (a.f.)
Poland
Michel Drucker (a.f.)
France
Best movies:
My Summer in Provence (2014)
Tour De Force (2013)
The Antidote (2005)
Marie Dubois (a.f.)
France
Best movies:
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
Jules and Jim (1962)
Les Grandes Gueules (1965)
Marguerite Duras (a.f.)
Best movies:
Navire Night (1979)
India Song (1975)
The Lorry (1977)
Jane Fonda (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
On Golden Pond (1981)
Coming Home (1978)
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969)
Françoise Giroud (a.f.)
Switzerland
Maidie Norman (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
Roots: The Next Generations (1979) (series)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Millie Perkins (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
Wall Street (1987)
Wild in the Country (1961)
Delia Salvi (a.f.)
Italy
Best movies:
Lust for Life (1956)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Brave New World (1980) (TV movie)
Maria Schneider (a.f.)
France
Best movies:
Madly (1969)
Savage Nights (1992)
The Passenger (1975)
Ioana Wieder (a.f.)
Cindy Williams (a.f.)
USA
Best movies:
The Conversation (1974)
American Graffiti (1973)
More American Graffiti (1979)