In New York, Yolande Zauberman on the trail of anarchist Emma Goldman

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Today Arnaud Laporte talks to the director Yolande Zaubermannmultidisciplinary artist who alternates documentary and fiction, video art and narrative art.

Currently in residency in New York, and having toured extensively to compose a portrait of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat as part of the project Too soft for anyone I know with artist Stephen Torton, he began his quest to write a fictional film Emma Goldmann, intellectual born in Russia in 1869 and emigrated to New York in 1885, political activist and anarchist writer known for her radical libertarian and feminist writings and speeches. You played a pivotal role in the development of anarchist political philosophy in North America and Europe in the first half of the 20th century.

With her everything is physical, everything is impulsive. She thinks with her body, with her intimacy. That’s what makes it modern. Yolande Zaubermann

Presentation by Yolande Zaubermann : French director, artist and filmmaker Yolande Zauberman begins her career with a first documentary on apartheid in South Africa, Classified people which won, among other things, the Grand Prix at the Paris Festival and the Bronze Rose at the Bergamo Festival (Italy). Her second film Criminal caste (1989), filmed in India, was selected for the Cannes Film Festival. Three years later, she turned to fiction with the release of Hi Ivan, this is Abraham (Youth Award at the Cannes Film Festival). In 2011, Would you have sex with an Arab? is selected at the Venice International Film Festival and, in 2020, his film m won numerous awards including the César for best documentary.