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  Carole RoussopoulosCarole Roussopoulos

  Carole Roussopoulos was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1945. She began her studies in literature in Switzerland, then she went to Paris where she met her husband, Paul Roussopoulos, a Greek painter. In the early years of her career, she worked as a journalist at Vogue. From 1970 she started filmmaking with her video camera. In 1970 she organized a small video group in Paris called Video Out. That same year, she made Jean Genet parle d’Angela Davis and shot a video in the Palestinian camps, Hussein, le N럕on d’Aman. In 1982, she founded the Simone de Beauvoir Audiovisual Center with Delphine Seyrig and Iona Wieder, the first audiovisual center devoted to women’s history. She has made numerous video and film works especially dedicated to the women’s liberation movement including Debout ! Une histoire du mouvement de liberation des femmes (2000). In 1992, Roussopoulos was named Knight of Arts and Letters and in 2001 Knight of the Legion of Honor, recognizing “her 32 years of artistic activity as a filmmaker.”