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This documentary about abortion was made when it was still illegal in France. It looks at why women decide not to keep their child and how an abortion is carried out according to the Karman method. The film also shows the first women’s demonstration in favour of abortion held on November 20, 1971.
Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman With Her Camera
Subscription accessLe parcours de vie de Carole de Kalbermatten, Valaisanne de bonne famille qui, à 21 ans, gagne Paris, où elle rencontre Paul Roussopoulos. Le film a pour centre son travail de pionnière de la vidéo et pour périphérie son couple, l'amour comme source d'énergie permanente, une incessante complicité créatrice, la politique, la découverte des premiers outils de la vidéo, Jean Genet, la Palestine...
La Conférence des Femmes. Nairobi 85
Subscription accessAfter Mexico City 1975 and Copenhagen 1980, the United Nations chose Kenya for the 3rd World Conference on Women. Parallel to the official Conference of States is held in July 1985 the Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), in which 12,000 women participate. For ten days, on the University campus, they meet to discuss general and feminist political issues: peace, development, apartheid,...
The feminist video collective Les Insoumuses dissects and responds point by point in a humorous way to Bernard Pivot's special program with Françoise Giroud, Secretary of State for the Status of Women. "On December 30th 1975, after watching Bernard Pivot's programme on Antenne 2 entitled \*One more day and the year of the woman, phew! It'll be over\*, we felt the immense need to express our p...
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Subscription accessDrawing from the images of the last century, from those of Louis Lumière (1895) to those of Yann Le Masson (1973), this film is a subjective journey through the history of cinema, particularly documentary... Comolli willingly summons through quotation Robert Flaherty, Dziga Vertov, Jean Rouch, Mario Ruspoli, Robert Drew, Johan Van der Keuken, Maurice Pialat, Guy Debord, Joris Ivens, Luis Buñuel...
In 1971, the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) participated in the May Day parade and denounced sexual discrimination. The images recorded during the demonstration punctuate excerpts from a public meeting where the issues raised by the movement are discussed. Normative heterosexuality being the reflection of bourgeois society, conscious homosexuality represents a revolutionary fo...
_A Short History Of Madness_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losing...
Beppie is ten years old. Coming from a working-class background, she is a real Amsterdam kid, funny and witty. Spontaneously, she recounts for several months her adventures to the filmmaker who follows her in her daily life. With complete freedom of approach, Johan van der Keuken simultaneously creates a portrait of the child... and of the city.
Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), \_The Last Bolshevik\_ is a tribute from one filmmaker to another. An archeological expedition into film history that reveals new cinematic treasures, the film prompts a reflection on the relation between art and politics in the former Soviet Union.
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
*Imaginary Tales* is a feature-length documentary that paints a portrait of André Forcier as an auteur. It is the story of an exceptional filmmaker who is an essential part of the landscape and a pillar of our national cinema's identity. It is a unique opportunity to revisit his entire body of work, recognized as being strongly tinged with magical realism, through recreated scenes from each of ...
Léa Roback, her life, her work, her commitment. Through the “lights” of Léa Roback, a Jewish activist from Quebec who was a feminist, trade unionist, pacifist, and communist, *A Vision in the Darkness* offers a modernist vision of Quebec's history, from the early 20th century to the Duplessis years of the Grande Noirceur (Great Darkness).
The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Subscription accessAssociated with a film that profoundly changed our relationship with history, Ziva Postec is a little-known artist who devoted nearly six years of her life to editing “Shoah.” Claude Lanzmann's epic film would forever transform our understanding of the history of the extermination of European Jews during World War II. Delving into her personal memories, this unsung lace-maker, a “survivor” in h...
Chaque année, la bourgeoisie canadienne se réunit au banquet du Beaver Club. Elle y célèbre le vieux système d'exploitation coloniale britannique et son avatar moderne, le néocolonialisme canadien.
This documentary about abortion was made when it was still illegal in France. It looks at why women decide not to keep their child and how an abortion is carried out according to the Karman method. The film also shows the first women’s demonstration in favour of abortion held on November 20, 1971.
Carole Roussopoulos, A Woman With Her Camera
Subscription accessLe parcours de vie de Carole de Kalbermatten, Valaisanne de bonne famille qui, à 21 ans, gagne Paris, où elle rencontre Paul Roussopoulos. Le film a pour centre son travail de pionnière de la vidéo et pour périphérie son couple, l'amour comme source d'énergie permanente, une incessante complicité créatrice, la politique, la découverte des premiers outils de la vidéo, Jean Genet, la Palestine...
La Conférence des Femmes. Nairobi 85
Subscription accessAfter Mexico City 1975 and Copenhagen 1980, the United Nations chose Kenya for the 3rd World Conference on Women. Parallel to the official Conference of States is held in July 1985 the Forum of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO), in which 12,000 women participate. For ten days, on the University campus, they meet to discuss general and feminist political issues: peace, development, apartheid,...
The feminist video collective Les Insoumuses dissects and responds point by point in a humorous way to Bernard Pivot's special program with Françoise Giroud, Secretary of State for the Status of Women. "On December 30th 1975, after watching Bernard Pivot's programme on Antenne 2 entitled \*One more day and the year of the woman, phew! It'll be over\*, we felt the immense need to express our p...
In 1791, in Haiti, Dutty Boukman presided over a Vodou ritual in Bois-Caïman that led to the creation of the first Black republic. Since then, rituals of transformation and artistic expression have been at the core of a thriving culture as the country faces oppression, poverty, and natural disasters. _Kite Zo A (Leave the Bones)_ is a sensorial film about rituals in Haiti, from ancient to moder...
Cinéma documentaire : fragments d'une histoire
Subscription accessDrawing from the images of the last century, from those of Louis Lumière (1895) to those of Yann Le Masson (1973), this film is a subjective journey through the history of cinema, particularly documentary... Comolli willingly summons through quotation Robert Flaherty, Dziga Vertov, Jean Rouch, Mario Ruspoli, Robert Drew, Johan Van der Keuken, Maurice Pialat, Guy Debord, Joris Ivens, Luis Buñuel...
In 1971, the Front homosexuel d'action révolutionnaire (FHAR) participated in the May Day parade and denounced sexual discrimination. The images recorded during the demonstration punctuate excerpts from a public meeting where the issues raised by the movement are discussed. Normative heterosexuality being the reflection of bourgeois society, conscious homosexuality represents a revolutionary fo...
_A Short History Of Madness_ is a contemporary dance film. Traveling through time in six architectural scenes, it touches on key moments in the treatment of mental illness in Quebec, from the end of the 19th century to today. The film introduces us to six mentally ill characters who are interpreted by dancers. It then goes on to follow a woman, Jacqueline, who ends up on the street after losing...
Beppie is ten years old. Coming from a working-class background, she is a real Amsterdam kid, funny and witty. Spontaneously, she recounts for several months her adventures to the filmmaker who follows her in her daily life. With complete freedom of approach, Johan van der Keuken simultaneously creates a portrait of the child... and of the city.
Based on the life and work of the Russian film director Alexander Medvedkin (1900-1989), \_The Last Bolshevik\_ is a tribute from one filmmaker to another. An archeological expedition into film history that reveals new cinematic treasures, the film prompts a reflection on the relation between art and politics in the former Soviet Union.
Marina Abramovic : The Artist is Present
Subscription accessMarina Abramovic est une artiste émérite qui a toujours utilisé son corps dans son travail. À l'occasion d'une rétrospective que lui consacre le Musée d'art moderne de New York, elle décide de préparer une performance radicale. Pendant trois mois, elle demeurera assise sur une chaise, se contentant de regarder les personnes qui se trouvent devant ses yeux. Un exercice silencieux qui suscitera l...
*Imaginary Tales* is a feature-length documentary that paints a portrait of André Forcier as an auteur. It is the story of an exceptional filmmaker who is an essential part of the landscape and a pillar of our national cinema's identity. It is a unique opportunity to revisit his entire body of work, recognized as being strongly tinged with magical realism, through recreated scenes from each of ...
Léa Roback, her life, her work, her commitment. Through the “lights” of Léa Roback, a Jewish activist from Quebec who was a feminist, trade unionist, pacifist, and communist, *A Vision in the Darkness* offers a modernist vision of Quebec's history, from the early 20th century to the Duplessis years of the Grande Noirceur (Great Darkness).
The incredible story of an unknown woman who posthumously became one of the greatest photographers of the 20th century. Born to a French mother in New York before moving to Chicago, Vivian Maier took more than 100,000 photos throughout her life, but kept them hidden. It wasn’t until 2007 that John Maloof came across her work, which he has been showcasing ever since. Maier’s photos are now exhib...
Ziva Postec. The Editor Behind The Film Shoah
Subscription accessAssociated with a film that profoundly changed our relationship with history, Ziva Postec is a little-known artist who devoted nearly six years of her life to editing “Shoah.” Claude Lanzmann's epic film would forever transform our understanding of the history of the extermination of European Jews during World War II. Delving into her personal memories, this unsung lace-maker, a “survivor” in h...
Chaque année, la bourgeoisie canadienne se réunit au banquet du Beaver Club. Elle y célèbre le vieux système d'exploitation coloniale britannique et son avatar moderne, le néocolonialisme canadien.