Maso and Miso Go Boating
(Maso et Miso vont en bateau)
Directed by Nadja Ringart, Carole Roussopoulos, Delphine Seyrig.
With Simone de Beauvoir, Delphine Seyrig, Iona Wieder.
France, 1975, DCP, black & white, 55 min.
French with English subtitles.
DCP source: Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
With Simone de Beauvoir, Delphine Seyrig, Iona Wieder.
France, 1975, DCP, black & white, 55 min.
French with English subtitles.
DCP source: Centre audiovisuel Simone de Beauvoir
Collectively directed by Seyrig, Carole Roussopoulos, Nadja Ringart, and Ioana Wieder under the name of their feminist video collective, “Les Insoumuses,” Maso et Miso vont en bateau is a parodic reconstruction of a televised event. When the United Nations declared 1975 to be the “year of the woman,” the French government aired a special on the subject that featured commentary from the male Secretary of State for Women and a host of toxic male guests. The film’s title, Maso and Miso, stands for “masochist” and “misogynist,” calling attention to the patriarchal underpinnings of French media and politics.