feminist Against-narrations
Yvonne To groove/ Jacques Kebadian

Wednesday March 12, 2008 with 20h
with the cinema Méliès

 Meeting in the presence of Jacques Kebadian and of Johanna Fox (doctorante, specialist in the cinema Yvonne To groove).

Albertine, the scented memory of Marie Rose
of Jacques Kebadian and Collective Eugene Varlin
(1972, 25 min)

Comedy insolente and antiautoritaire, "Albertine", film-proclamation of the insurrection  of youth and the desires, tell the history of a teenager in rebellion against the school, the rancid family, the religion and put in scene girls and young boys from 14 to 18 years which assert their right to a sexuality without obstacles and the right to the abortion for the minor ones. (Text: AI&KQ)
Engaged documentarist, assistant of Robert Bresson of 1965 to 1969, author of a feature film around Trotsky (1967), member of the Workshop of Cinematographic Research (collective scenario writers militant, libertarian, close to institutional psychotherapy and alternate private clinic of Borde, which filmed the fights of 68) in the years 1967-69, then of the transitory collective Eugene Varlin, Jacques Kebadian carries out thereafter many films related to the Armenian memory (Which are my become comrades?, Armenian memories), with the fights of the African families without papers (From one bush to another, 1998), with the incandescent literature of Pierre Guyotat or the walk of Zapatist in Mexico (Fragile Armada, 2005, Co-carried out with Joani Hocquenghem). (distribution: the people which miss)

Film butt has woman who...  Yvonne Rainer
(1974, 105min)

Decisive and extremely rare film of the American avant-garde, magnificiently photographed by Babette Mangolte, Film butt has woman who... of the choreographer Yvonne Rainer, tells, in a fragmentary way and by the means of intimate conversations,  the relations in love between men and women, anticipating magistralement the feminist text pioneer of Laura Mulvey, Visual pleasure and narration Cinema, published in 1975, analyzes critical narrative film, and particularly of the Hollywood American cinema, in his construction of an iconography and a filmic language sexists. Film butt has woman who concerns thus a project of against-narration which aims at countering the identification, while being made place of expression of a subjective experiment and a feminist conscience "I felt authorized - at the moment when I started to interest me in the question of the narration and the account - to explore my own life as a material-source for my work, to pay an attention increased to my own experiments, just like myself as a historical subject" (Text: AI&KQ)

Yvonne Rainer studied the dance in New York with Martha Graham and Merce Cunningham before founding with others the group Avant-garde Dance, in Judson Dance Theater, in 1962, which became the center of the experimental contemporary dance new yorkaise. In 1965, Yvonne Rainer published a proclamation which made school, inviting the artists to reject the spectacle, the virtuosity and all the other types of artifices of the dance, for a revolutionary esthetics stripping superfluity. At the beginning of the years 1970, Yvonne Rainer joins again with the narrative screen and gives a political dimension to its?uvre. It gives up the world of the dance in 1974 to be devoted to the cinematographic realization, in order to work with a tool more permanent than the movement. Abandonment also dependent on its progressive engagement in feminism. Nevertheless, the experimentation, the parcelling out, the unusual juxtaposition and a demarcation or an eloquent rupture with the aesthetic postulates, are elements that Rainer transposed of the dance to the screen in?uvres like Lives of Performers (1972), Film butt A Woman Who... (1974), Kristina Talking Pictures (1976), Journeys from Berlin/1971 (1980), The Man Who Envied Women (1985), Privilege (1991) and Murder and Murder (1996).