Delphine and Carole

Using the video camera as a weapon, Carole Roussopoulos and Delphine Seyrig transformed their frustration into humor and created groundbreaking feminist activism.

In her apartment in Paris at the beginning of the seventies, Carole Roussopoulos holds courses in film technique. One day the legendary actor Delphine Seyring (Jeanne Dielman and India Song) shows up at her door. It turns into a life-long friendship characterized by feminist activism channeled into their shared film collective. Aside from documenting the protest movements of that time, they also used the new medium to attack the image of women found in public. Always subversive. Never without humor. Generous with archive material from both the collective’s own films and interviews with Simone de Beauvoir, Chantal Akerman and Jane Fonda.

• Mattias Mattsson