Defiant Muses
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Delphine Seyrig and the Feminist Video Collectives in France in the 1970s and 1980s
Nicole Fernández Ferrer / Élisabeth Lebovici …
Overview
This publication explores the intersection between the histories of cinema, video and feminism in France. Focusing on the emergence of video collectives in the 1970s, the exhibition proposes to reconsider the history of the feminist movement in France through a set of media practices and looks at a network of creative alliances that emerged in a time of political turmoil.
contents
12 Defiant Muses: An Introduction
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Giovanna Zapperi
74 “Undoing the Diva”: Delphine Seyrig as an Actress, or the Deconstruction of a
Myth
Alexandre Moussa
102 Cutting Up Men?
Delphine Seyrig and Carole
Roussopoulos’s Playful Forms of Video Activism
Ros Murray
134 To Be a Woman, Not a Vision Delphine Seyrig’s Feminist Quest Françoise Vergès
162 “Never Seen but Fully Imagined”: Delphine Seyrig’s Part(s) in Ulrike Ottinger’s
Cinema
Élisabeth Lebovici
192 “A Remarkable Story”: The Centre audiovisuel
Simone de Beauvoir in Paris
Nataša Petrešin-Bachelez and Giovanna Zapperi in Conversation with Nicole
Fernández Ferrer
217 Epilogue
230 List of Images