Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

V.W. Vitesses Women

Claudine Eizykman 1972 France Experimental b/w & color 36min French
It has often been maintained that there was no radical experimental filmmaking in France, yet C.Eizykman's film" V. W. Vitesses Women" confirms otherwise, offering an extremely rigorous exploration of cinematographic information (negative/ positive, speed, duration) operating outside any notion of narrativity.

Director

Claudine Eizykman

As a filmmaker she has made a dozen films (Selection Committee Prize at the Knokke-le-Zoute Festival in 1974-75), videos and - in collaboration with Guy Fihman a dozen holographic films and devices to record and present them. Since 1969 she has published numerous studies on narrative cinema (La Jovissance Cinéma, 1976, ed. 10/181, video art, experimental and avant-garde film, notably on the Vasulkas, Peter Kubelka, Jonas Mekas, Andy Warhol... From 1993 to late 1995, she programmed films for the French Cinémathèque in a regular slot called "Cabinet d'Amateur" : Since late 1998, she has programmed experimental and avant-garde films for the Forum des Images in Paris. She was a co-founder of the Paris Film Coop in 1974, publisher of the magazine Melba (1976-79), co-founded Cinédoc, of which she is president and since 1979, has taught as a professor at the Université Paris 8 de Vincennes-Saint-Denis.