Delphine & Carole. 2019. Directed by Callisto McNulty. French with English subtitles. 70 min.

The Future of Film is Female presents our first International Women’s Day event with a special two-day virtual screening of Callisto McNulty’s documentary, Delphine & Carole, about the revolutionary collaborative feminist filmmaking of actress Delphine Seyrig and video artist Carole Roussopoulos. The screenings will conclude with a virtual conversation with McNulty.

Delphine & Carole drives at the heart of feminism in the 1970s. With a video camera in hand, these filmmakers engage in radical fights with insolence, intransigence and a lot of humor.

Although she became famous as the star of films by Chantal Akerman, François Truffaut, Alain Resnais, and Luis Buñuel, Delphine Seyrig was also a powerful voice of the French feminist movement in the 1960s and 1970s, advocating for abortion and prostitution rights and the proto–Me Too struggles of women actresses. Callisto McNulty illustrates this unsung aspect of Seyrig’s career in her riveting and subversively funny new documentary, which comprises film clips, television interviews with misogynistic politicians and intellectuals, and excerpts from the radical protest videos that Seyrig made with fellow filmmaker-activist Carole Roussopoulos, videos like Be Pretty and Shut Up! and Maso and Miso Go Boating that featured stinging observations by Jane Fonda, Maria Schneider, and other Hollywood and French actresses.

Screened at Berlinale 2019 and the 2020 DocFortnight program at the Museum of Modern Art. It has not been theatrically released yet.