MASO ET MISO VONT EN BATEAU: 1970s Feminist Video by French Militant Collectives
Organized by Stéphanie Jeanjean and Alaina Claire Feldman
There exists an entire history of radical, pioneering feminist video collectives in France that has yet to be unearthed not only to an Anglo audience, but also to the entire Western canon of media studies. In France, in the early 1970s, several activist collectives (Video Out, Vidéa, Les Insoumuses, etc.) composed almost entirely of women took up the new portable video camera as an immediate and accessible tool to promote feminism, direct democracy, and political action. This event will acknowledge their place, role and contribution to the history of video and feminism, while creating new audiences and appreciation.
Over the course of two evenings, loosely organized around the themes of protest and satire, a selection of these videos will make their English and American debut with subtitles followed by discussions with artists, scholars, and feminists who are influenced by similar practices.
TUESDAY JULY 17, 2012
GRèVE DE FEMMES à TROYES [MLF: CATHY BERNHEIM, NED BURGESS, CATHERINE DEUDON, SUZANNE FENN, ANNETTE LEVY WILLARD], février 1971
HUIT MARS 1975 [Vidéa: ANNE-MARIE FAURE-FRAISSE, ISABELLE FRAISSE, SYN GUÉRIN, CATHERINE LAHOURCADE], 1975
KATE MILLETT PARLE DE LA PROSTITUTION AVEC DES FéMINISTES [Vidéa: SYN GUÉRIN & CATHERINE LAHOURCADE], juin 1975
Conversation Participants: Alaina Claire Feldman, Stéphanie Jeanjean,
Kate Millett, Georgia Sagri, Elisabeth Subrin
WEDNESDAY JULY 18, 2012
MALéDICTINES [Vidéa: Anne-Marie FAURE-FRAISSE, Isabelle FRAISSE, SYN GUÉRIN, CATHERINE LAHOURCADE, Marie-Hélène.], 1975
S.C.U.M. MANIFESTO [Les Insoumuses: Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig], aout 1976
MASO ET MISO VONT EN BATEAU [Les Insoumuses: CAROLE ROUSSOPOULOS & NADJA RINGART, DELPHINE SEYRIG, IONA WIEDER], 1976
Conversation Participants: Alaina Claire Feldman, K8 Hardy, Stéphanie Jeanjean, Martha Wilson
This program is made possible with support from Cultural Services of the French Embassy in New York, Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir in Paris, and The Kitchen.
Photo: Les Insoumuses. Maso et Miso vont en bateau, 1976. Video still (From left to right: Delphine Seyrig, Carole Roussopoulos, Ioana Wieder, and Nadja Ringart) Courtesy of Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir, Paris.
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