DELPHINE ET CAROLE, insoumuses
POST SCREENING DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR CALLISTO MC NULTY AND ACTOR SIOBHAN MCSWEENEY
Dir. Callisto Mc Nulty
2018
FRI 1ST NOV | BLACKBOX | 7PM | £7 (plus booking fee)
2018
FRI 1ST NOV | BLACKBOX | 7PM | £7 (plus booking fee)
Delphine Seyrig is best known as a grande dame of 20th Century French cinema, starring in iconic films like Last Year at Marienbad (1961), The Disreet Charms of the Bourgeosie (1972), as well as Chantal Akerman’s feminist classic Jeanne Dielman, 1080 quai de commerce, Bruxelles (1975). But she was also a feminist filmmaker who worked as part of a filmmaking collective. From its beginnings during an editing workshop led by fellow activist Carole Roussopoulos, this film by Roussopoulos’s granddaughter, Callisto McNulty, sheds light on the activist filmmaking by the duo, the causes they got behind, and their creative partnership.
Seyrig was a major feminist figure in France and used her position as a celebrity to raise awareness for different causes. She was one of the signatories of the 1971 ‘Manifesto of the 343’, declaring publically alongside other well-known figures that she’d had an illegal abortion.
This film shows in detail the thinking behind Seyrig and Roussopoulos’s methods, and their motivation to reclaim their own image, in front and behind the camera, and to reframe the narrative of women’s rights and representation.
This is the film’s Irish premiere. The director of the film, Callisto McNulty will introduce the screening.
Seyrig was a major feminist figure in France and used her position as a celebrity to raise awareness for different causes. She was one of the signatories of the 1971 ‘Manifesto of the 343’, declaring publically alongside other well-known figures that she’d had an illegal abortion.
This film shows in detail the thinking behind Seyrig and Roussopoulos’s methods, and their motivation to reclaim their own image, in front and behind the camera, and to reframe the narrative of women’s rights and representation.
This is the film’s Irish premiere. The director of the film, Callisto McNulty will introduce the screening.
