Retrospective Carole Roussopoulos with the Cineclub

“I wonder why people of cinema want so much to film the others with so much frenzy. One cannot need everyone like that. ” Jean-Luc Godard, “Letter with Carole Roussopoulos”, April 12, 1979, in Books of the Cinema n°300.
With an inexhaustible energy, a devastating humour, a historical relevance which is confirmed each day and since 1969 never stopped, Carole Roussopoulos de Kalbermatten, only or in collective, did not cease reinventing the forms of the test and the visual analysis by documenting the fights feminist, homosexual, working and anti-impérialistes. Its considerable work covers forty years of fights, forty years of combat always gained through intelligence and political, victorious know-how always on the legislative ground, ever acquired on the more moving ground of mentalities and the behaviors. Like she writes it itself on her CV: “It privileges the approach of the `without voix', of the anonymities which marked the history and supported by its work the fight of the women” - it would be necessary for operating a methodological bringing together between its work of immediate history and that which during the same decades achieveachieves Arlette Farge in retrospective history, both on the basis of theoretical proposal of Michel Foucault. Perhaps Pionnière of the video, virtuoso of the filmic, giant lampoon of the documentary policy following the example Joris Ivens, Rene Vautier, Chris Marker or Robert Kramer, to quote some of those which fought in images and at the present on all fronts, it does not need everyone, like asked him for Jean-Luc Godard, but us, we need it. Carole Roussopoulos incarnates for us the true beauty and the true joy. (Nicole Brenez)

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