PARIS INTERNATIONAL
LESBIAN & FEMINIST FILM FESTIVAL
Quand les lesbiennes se font du cinéma
This year, with a very short(s) festival, we are offering no less than 33 short films from 15 countries on four continents, spread over four screenings.
But also two feature films, Sea Purple, previews 2011 (Monday, 8pm), a beautiful Italian movie based on a true story that took place in Sicily in the early nineteenth century. To live her romance with Sara, Angela is forced to change her identity and become, in everyone's eyes, Angelo... Elena Undone (Tuesday, 8 pm), the new film by Nicole Conn, director of Claire of the Moon, is the romantic movie selection. The friendship between Peyton, a young lesbian woman assumed, and Elena, the wife of an anti-gay pastor who has never experienced true love, is transformed gradually into a consuming passion. 
And four documentaries, Edie and Thea: A Very Long Engagement (Monday, 4pm): the directors of The Brandon Teena Story are back with this funny and touching documentary about a great love story. That of Edie and Thea who met at the age of 19 during a dance party and who, after the age of 80, continue to dance together. Topp Twins Untouchable Girls (Monday, 10pm): The Topp Twins are twin sisters lesbians feminists, country singers and comedians recognized, adored across the country.  |
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The year 2010 has seen a number of events honouring the 40th anniversary of the founding of the MLF, the Movement for the Liberation of Women in France.
This edition of Cineffable will also be looking back over the struggle, with a focus on lesbians. Discussions; tributes; individual, selfservice screens providing access to videos from the 70s to today; an exhibit; a screening dedicated to Carole Roussopoulos... and this special MLF anniversary screening are some of the highlights of the celebration. Two hours couldn't possibly suffice for an in-depth look at 40 years of struggle, debate, actions and dreams, but we hope these images - ranging from the first modern feminist march to the anniversary festivities, last June - will stimulate memories and re-energise everyone. We have also saved a special place for a radical lesbian who was essential to our history as feminist lesbians: Michèle Causse. |
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40 years of MLF, lesbians' historic contribution, a mini-conference based on the posters from Press Movement: 1970 to the present - feminist and lesbian struggles by Michèle Larrouy and Martine Laroche. With Michèle Larrouy, Martine Laroche (unconfirmed) and Suzette Robichon, discussion and guided tour.
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| CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS | ||||
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"TV will never represent us, We'll tell our own stories with video"
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 Ioana 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. For this special "Tribute to Carole Roussopoulos", Cineffable presents 3 of her films from different periods, preceded by excerpts from a "Cinema Lesson", an intimate interview she granted at the International Women's Film Festival in Créteil, in 2000. In this "Lesson", Carole Roussopoulos takes a brief but exhilarating look back over her career. |
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| MICHÈLE CAUSSE | ||||
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« Died several times, I'm not sure to be born. This is why any biography seems a sham. Unreal, or even borrowed from another. What I did not matter to me infinitely more than what I did. So what did not happen. I nevertheless a story, which looks like a geographical map (France, Tunisia, Italy, USA, Caribbean, Canada), all of topoi, vibratory spaces of varying intensities, that return migration images of my existence. But why talk about it? Let me read more. To contradict my epitaph " Neither read, nor approved of' " »
Born, as its name predestined them on the Causses du Lot July 29, 1936 in Martel, she chose to move / born July 29, 2010, with the association Dignitas in Zurich. Michèle Causse graduated translator at the University of Paris (Sorbonne), taught briefly in Tunisia, lived ten years in Rome where she studied Chinese and wrote an essay on the status of concubines, maids-in-courtesans Ming novels (unpublished). Back in France, she wrote L'encontre which Monique Wittig was the first reader. She lived for eight years in Martinique and writing on behalf of the Ministry of Women's Rights study on ethno-social stratification of women in Martinique, then in the same island, Lettres à Omphale and ( ). A briefly lived in New York where she met Djuna Barnes, Jill Johnston, Catherine Stimpson, Joan Nestle, Kate Millett. has been a visiting professor at Rome (chair of Adult Education), consultant to UNESCO (Department of Literacy, where she used the methodology developed by Alice Ceresa "Unit library"), a visiting professor at Montreal at Concordia University. She has translated from English and Italian thirty novels (Melville, Gertrude Stein, Djuna Barnes, Mary Daly, Silone, Pavese, Natalia Ginzburg, Alice Ceresa, Luigi Malerba, etc.). All his work continues under a single "bring about the language point is born" in a search does not dissociate the writing of his theorizing. Michèle Causse leaves 3 new works to be published: two novels "Défigures du soi" and "Les belettes et les boas" and a theoretical text wrote with Katy Barasc, philosopher: "Requiem pour ils et elles : les Sapiens ou la fin d'une imposture", a reflection on the conditions of possibility a new figure of justice by failing sapiential categories of description/prescription assigned to any living subject. |
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