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    Prostitutes in Lyons Speak Up

    Carole ROUSSOPOULOS 1975 b/w 46min
    in 1975, hundreds of prostitutes take over a cathedral in Lyon. A video monitor is
    set up on the street in front of the cathedral to broadcast to pedestrians passing by
    he stories on the women demonstrators inside. A childhood tainted with domestic
    violence, bad relationships, exhausting and never-ending labor to support a family as
    a wife and a mother, all their efforts towards self-preservation were no different from
    other women. The cross-editing between the cathedral and the prostitutes creates a
    third perspective that critiques the conventional division between the Madonna and
    the prostitute.

    Director

    Carole ROUSSOPOULOS

    Carole ROUSSOPOULOS was born in Lausanne in 1945. Since 1973, she has directed and edited over eighty videos, giving priority to the stories of "those who have no voice." In 1982 she has founded in Paris (with Delphine Seyrig and loana Wieder) the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center. From 1987 to 1994 she has directed in Paris 'Entrepôt, a space which includes three art movie theaters, a bookstore, a restaurant and a café. Since 2001 she is a Légion d'Honneur Knight.

    Carole ROUSSOPOULOS

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