Sorcires camarades (1971) Danielle Jaeggi

“A film about women. A film by women. A film for women. With a man’s camera. Someday women will see these sad images of our survival and will wonder how we have been able to take it.“ -- Directed in 1971 by Danielle Jaeggi, a pioneering director of French feminist experimental cinema, Sorcières-camarades is the film-manifesto of a feminist counter-cinema which, through this inaugural gesture, signs the end of the gaze that had been too lacking until then, fulfilling the wish of those years to search “collectively and individually for a feminine language“, to “cut up, decipher and invent“ the world, by attempting to invent a new way of producing images. This is how this gaze unfolds, coming to “qualitatively change words and thoughts, to bring a truly revolutionary content“ to their films. “(...) I have the desire that women and men change. Digitized by CNC in 2018