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Founded in 1982 by Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig and Ioana
Wieder, the mission of the Centre audiovisuel
Simone de Beauvoir
is to gather all audiovisual documents on women's rights, fights,
art and creation,
and to publicize/to promote and distribute them. |
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| Rising from the enthusiasm of May 68 and the Estates General of
the cinema, interventionist cinema also rose from its ashes, with
the desire to film reality as it happens and to act on the protest
movements. In this effervescent and activist context, women directors
seized on the cinema's new resources such as video, using Sony's
Portapak movie cameras. These directors accompanied their history
and battles and took charge of their own representation. Like Virginia
Woolf who demanded "a room of her own", feminists demanded "a
camera of their own', and made this an act of rebirth. |
More or less everywhere in France,
video collectives — un-incorporated, fluctuating and innovative — grew.
The directors never referred to what was being said on the outside,
in voice over: Don't cut. Don't censure/comment. Nothing must interrupt
or alter what is being said. The films, videos, sound recordings, and
rushes from the Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir collection come
from the activist cinema of the 1960s to the 1980s, video art of the
1980s, and social and political movements of the 1990s. |
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The Centre audiovisuel Simone de
Beauvoir also films and archives contemporary events. The creation
of an audiovisual memory is part of an approach shared with the women's
movement to give a positive image of their place, role and contribution.
This collection has many activist —feminist, gay and lesbian — videos
from the 1970s, but also more recent works, documentaries, video art,
fiction and experimental films produced in France and abroad. |
Thanks to the CASdB, the videos of
the founders (Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig, and Ioana Wieder)
as well as groups like 'Les Muses s'amusent', Videa, 'Les Insoumuses'
or Video Out are once again available. The collection promotes works
that are too often unknown, hidden, or even forgotten for lack of distribution.
Alongside this work of safeguarding and promoting an audiovisual memory,
the Center guides people in learning how images work and first of all
in analyzing sexed representations in audiovisual content. |
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