Carole Roussopoulos

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.

The “Journal Annales” consists of almost 2.000 hours of video footage collected by filmmaker Lionel Soukaz since 1991. For “Carottage”, the idea was to take a random sample from this vast volume, like a geological core sample. The result is a condensed history of political struggles and radical cultural experimentation spanning two decades.

In the 70s, actress Delphine Seyrig and director Carole Roussopoulos, both militant feminists, were the pioneers of video activism in France. They documented the demonstrations of French feminists and used the new technologies to counter the poor representation of women in the public media.

Four women farmers working in the Champagne-Ardennes region talk about their working conditions, the part they play in running the farm, the distribution of jobs between husband and wife and the lack of status of their work... They emphasise how denial of the essential role they play in running the farm has led them to demand specific recognition of their job. Presentation of the Women's Association for Agricultural Development (AFDA).

Four women farmers working in the Champagne-Ardennes region talk about their working conditions, the part they play in running the farm, the distribution of jobs between husband and wife and the lack of status of their work... They emphasise how denial of the essential role they play in running the farm has led them to demand specific recognition of their job. Presentation of the Women's Association for Agricultural Development (AFDA).

Delphine Seyrig reads passages from a Valerie Solanas’s SCUM manifesto.

In September 1972, a Palestinian commando called the Black September took the Israeli delegation hostage at the Munich Olympics. This film, which denounces the hypocrisy of this illusory "Olympic peace", is a montage of images from official television and images filmed in the Palestinian refugee camps of Jordan in September 1971 (Black September), in full repression of the Palestinian people by the armies of King Hussein.

Documentary about the Lyon sex workers who occupied the church of St. Nizier on June 3, 1975.

Two friends meet up to talk about themselves, about the violence perpetrated on women, the assaults they have suffered and rape as well as their own alienation. They talk about justice and repression with three lawyers.

Two friends meet up to talk about themselves, about the violence perpetrated on women, the assaults they have suffered and rape as well as their own alienation. They talk about justice and repression with three lawyers.

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August 1973, after the police move into the Lip factory in Besançon, one of the female workers, Monique Piton, talks about the four months of struggle, the place of women and the lessons she has learnt. She is also critical of the role of television.

The film portrays six women oyster farmers in the Marennes-Oleron Bay (Charentes-Maritimes). It explores their working and living conditions, the hardships of the profession, the division of tasks between men and women and the professional status of female farmers. Several women in the oyster-farming bay form a professional association.

This documentary is about the solidarity march supporting the workers on strike at Lip (September 1973). Strikers, including Charles Piaget, talk about the action committee and its relationship to the union structure. Images of the march alternate with shots taken at various meetings.

The year 1975 is declared “year of the woman”. On this occasion Bernard Pivot invited Françoise Giroud on television, then Secretary of State for Women. Faced with statements, a group of women filmmakers parody the issues in a provocative way.

A young woman talks about the "Young Lord", the Puerto Ricans who are living in the United States but do not have the necessary diploma to find work. The movie tracks back the story of the movement, born in 1969. Inspired by the american black fights, it is at first a very political movement. it gets more social around 1970. The movie makes us discover a place of refuge for the junkies. They talk about the difficult life conditions of the minorities, about drogue problems and about the initiatives that are meant to help them. They denounce a governmental plan which is supposed to get ride of the blacks and Puerto Ricans by using drogues: the methadone substitution program, legal and provided by the government, holds the junkies into a mental slavery, which drives them to their death. They also talk about the whole propaganda system and the mental conditioning of society.

Documentary about women screen directors from 1900 to 1960, produced with the support of archival photographs and uotations selected from the following dictionaries of the cinema: Dictionnaire du cinéma by Jean Talard, published by Robert Laffont and Dictionnaire des cinéastes by Georges Sadoul, published by Seuil. Carole Roussopoulos uses pictures and quotes from Movie Dictionaries in this tribute to women filmmakers from 1900 to 1960.

Women walk in protest against executions of Basque militants by Franco regimen.

Margo Jefferson, a journalism lecturer in New York, and Ti-Gracen Atkinson, a writer and feminist theoretician, talk to Flo Kennedy, a Black American lawyer, about racism, minorities' rights and the E.R.A. (constitutional amendment to garantee women's rights).

Gabrielle Nanchen, the first Swiss woman socialist deputy to the National Council is interviewed on the very day that women obtain the right to vote in Switzerland and in her canton, Valais. The film also collects the reactions of the Valais peasants.

A few hours after Sanchez Bravo's execution, his sister recounts the condemned man's last night. Otaegi's mother talks about her son's life and the last conversation she had with him. Txiki's mother speaks of the solidarity of her village, where she has lived for eleven years, a widow with seven children. She denounces the "phantom" trial, the torture and murder of her son.

After two months of a hard-fought strike, accompanied by a day-and-night occupation of the premises, Jeune Afrique's workers were the victims of a court order authorizing their CEO, Bechir Ben Yahmed, to have them removed by the police. If they resisted, they risked falling foul of the law against rioters. To avoid the African comrades being deported from France, the strikers decided to leave. But before leaving, they organized a demonstration of solidarity with hundreds of journalists from the traditional and revolutionary press.

Carole Roussopoulos shoots the life of under-priviledged families living on a model estate at Herblay (Val d’Oise), where volunteers of the ATD Fourth World movement also live with their families.

In the aftermath of the arrest of Angela Davis, Jean Genet reads a text denouncing racist US policy, supporting the Black Panthers party and Angela Davis for a television show that will be completely censored.

The lesbian community of Geneva wears its name well - Lestime - as an affirmation of pride, openness, and also of strength. This film offers numerous testimonies on being a lesbian today, with Catherine Gaillard's show, Les Amazones, as a common thread. The direct testimonies of those who are in the front line to defend the rights of lesbians, their representativeness, their visibility are their contribution to change mentalities within the family, the school, and the working world, so that lesbians can live without fear.

With the support of delegations of women from all around the world, Cypriot women march peacefully to try to obtain the application of the United Nations resolution, ordering refugees to return home.

Document on the struggle of immigrant workers on strike for rent in Sonacotra homes with the support, in terms of legal defense, of Jacques Verges, lawyer, and judge Bidalou.