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Recording of a tense discussion between three people around the question of "revolution". Steve Ben Israel (member of the Living Theatre), James Cellan (BBC director) and David Autie (sculptor) confront each other in a debate that provoked a strong political and radical awareness among the students of the Royal College of Art in London. The screening of the document led to the return to school of five students who had been unjustly expelled by the school administration.
Feature-length documentary directed by Mireille Danserau in 1973: in-depth interviews with four young women who explain their complex relationships with men, motherhood and their own femininity, sometimes radically detaching themselves from the standardized and traditional conception of the couple.
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What place do breasts occupy in the identity of women? Intersecting several voices--adolescent girls, mothers, lesbians, dancers, bodybuilders...--this film draws a mosaic portrait of the breast, from childhood to maturity, from seduction to illness, from motherhood to surgery, from the tyranny of the image to self-acceptance. An impressionist documentary, funny and touching, against the backdrop of the beach and holidays.
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There were these reels that Mireille Dansereau kept at home. However, the filmmaker didn’t know exactly what was on them or what they might contain. In 2024, Mireille Dansereau and André Habib agreed: these reels would be digitized at the CinéMedias Laboratory. Led by André Habib and Florence Audet, the digitization process gradually revealed these family archives.