DES FLEURS POUR SIMONE DE BEAUVOIR

Carole ROUSSOPOULOS (1945-2009) & Arlène SHALE

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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November 1st and 2, 2010

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