Rembobineur: Hommage à Carole Roussopoulos

Quinze years after his death, the Franco-Swiss videographer is at the center of the latest production of the Marthe collective at the Museum of Living History. Two actresses brilliantly revisit her documentaries.

There are names that we never heard of before and that are now popping up in one creative center after another, endlessly feeding plays, movies, and debates. For example, Carole Roussopoulos. Friend and film collaborator of Delphine Seyrig, the Franco-Swiss videographer made more than a hundred political and activist documentaries from the 1970s until her death in 2009 at the age of 64. Carole Roussopoulos and her Portapak, the lightweight Sony camera that she bought as the second one sold in France in 1967 (the first being sold by Godard), had already appeared in the documentary by Callisto McNulty, Delphine and Carole, a rebellious duo (2019). Then there was the play Delphine and Carole, by Marie Rémond and Caroline Arrouas, and Rewinder the show by the Marthe collective, which continues to tour. And following the director, everyone she gave a voice and an image to enters the stage: homosexuals, workers, Palestinians, prostitutes, lesbians, raped women, immigrants, victims of incest.

Tracings on tracing paper

So you absolutely have to go see Rewinder. For a few more days at the Museum of Living History in Montreuil (as part of the public theater of Montreuil off-site), and then on tour, you enter the political and gentle world of the Marthe collective (Carole Rous