LA MARCHE DES FEMMES À HENDAYE

Carole ROUSSOPOULOS (1945-2009)

Video pioneer Carole Roussopoulos shot some hundred-odd documentary films from 1969 to 2009. With a militant video-camera in her fist and a microphone reaching out to those whose voices are never heard, she accompanied and illuminated the various protest movements and struggles of the 70s – anti-imperialist, pro-workers' rights, gay rights, and above all, feminist – with intelligence, enthusiasm and humor. She sometimes worked alone and sometimes as part of a collective. In 1982, she, Delphine Seyrig and Iona Wieder founded the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Centre, an audiovisual production and archive centre dedicated to women, for which she directed a number of documentaries about women's history. From 1984, she pursued her combat through her production company, Video Out, giving those who are seldom heard – the disadvantaged, inmates, drug addicts and others – a chance to speak. After returning to her native Switzerland in 1995, she went on to address other issues that are rarely documented and hard to finance: the elderly, hospice care, organ donations, excision, forced marriages and more.

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Ioana WIEDER

Translator and film director, Ioana Wieder was born in Bucharest before migrating to Palestine, Lebanon, then to France where she was naturalized in 1957. Subsequently, she moved to the United States, committed to the movement "Free Speech" and discovers The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan. Back in France in 1968, Ioana Wieder taught and made translations, including Ellen Frankfort's Vaginal Politics. She joins the feminist movements, participates in the MLF (Movement for the Liberation of Women in France), and is passionate about video with her friend Delphine Seyrig. In 1975, the two women met Carole Roussopoulos with whom they formed the collective of the Insoumuses and made several documentaries, including the humorous Maso et Miso vont en bateau in 1976. At the same time, she made her own films.

November 1st and 2, 2010

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