Caroline de Bendern

Caroline De Bendern
Born1945
Windsor
OccupationFilmmaker
Years active1968-
Partner(s)Barney Wilen, Jacques Thollot

Caroline de Bendern is a filmmaker and former model. A widely published photograph of her waving the Vietnamese flag at a demonstration in Paris became known as the Marianne of the May 1968 events[1] (The Marianne of May 1968 [fr]).

Early life

Caroline de Bendern was born in 1945 at Windsor,[2] the daughter of John de Forest and Lady Patricia Sybil Douglas (daughter of Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry), and the granddaughter of Maurice de Forest.[3]

Paris, May 1968

At a demonstration in Paris on 13 May 1968, de Bendern was photographed on the shoulders of her friend Jean-Jacques Lebel waving a Vietnamese flag. The photograph taken by Jean-Pierre Rey [fr] at place Edmond Rostand, near the Luxembourg gardens, appeared in Life[4] and Paris Match.[5][6]

Film

Caroline de Bendern appears in a number of films made by the Zanzibar Group of radical French filmmakers, including Serge Bard [fr] and Olivier Mosset, which was active from 1968 to 1970.[7][8][9]

Her own film À l'intention de Mlle Issoufou à Bilma documents a trip across Africa made with Serge Bard and others.[10] The group included the saxophonist Barney Wilen, de Bendern's future husband. de Bendern is credited on Wilen's albums Moshi (1972) and Moshi Too, based on recordings from the trip.[11] The 2017 reissue of Moshi includes de Bendern's film.[12]

Filmography

  • 1968: (as actor) Détruisez-vous (Destroy Yourselves), directed by Serge Bard
  • 1968: (as actor) Un film porno, directed by Olivier Mosset
  • 1968: (as actor) Fun and Games for Everyone, directed by Serge Bard[13]
  • 1968: (as actor) Ici et maintenant [fr], directed by Serge Bard
  • 1971: (as director) A l'intention de Mlle Issoufou à Bilma
  • 1999: Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice, directed by Gérard Courant[14]
  • 2011: (as director) Dark Gable - Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn at the Fondation Cartier, May 2011

Personal life

Caroline de Bendern was the partner of musician Jacques Thollot [fr], who died in 2014.[15]

References

  1. ^ Frymann Rouch, Abigail (20 March 2017). "Caroline de Bendern: 'leave campaign was lies and xenophobia'". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  2. ^ Vaillant, Frantz (22 March 2018). "Femmes de mai 68 : Caroline de Bendern, la Marianne déshéritée". TV5 Monde. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  3. ^ "Caroline de Bendern". Geneanet. Retrieved 18 October 2024.
  4. ^ "Students Unmask! Comes the Youth Revolt". Life. Vol. 64, no. 21. 24 May 1968. p. 31. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  5. ^ Paris Match, No. 998, 15 June 1968, p.60.
  6. ^ Fresnel, Hélène (21 April 2008). "Caroline de Bendern, égérie malgré elle". Les femmes de mai (in French). Elle. Retrieved 17 October 2024. Elle est l'image icônique de mai 68.
  7. ^ Reader, Keith (August 2007). "Africa is a Revolutionary Country: Sally Shafto's Zanzibar: The Zanzibar Films and the Dandies of May 1968". Senses of Cinema. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  8. ^ Shafto, Sally (May 2008). "No Wave: The Zanzibar Group". Artforum. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  9. ^ Shafto, Sally (9 February 2002). "The new, new wave". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  10. ^ "Caroline de Bendern:Voyage à Zanzibar". Centre Pompidou.
  11. ^ Gooding, Francis (June 2017). "Barney Wilen, Moshi". The Wire. Retrieved 17 October 2024.
  12. ^ "Barney Wilen, Moshi (SouffleContinu Records, 2017)". Discogs. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  13. ^ "Fun and Games for Everyone". The Film-Makers's Cooperative. 1968. Retrieved 19 October 2024. 'a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings'
  14. ^ "Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice". Gerard Courant. Retrieved 19 October 2024.
  15. ^ Marmande, Francis (3 October 2014). "Jacques Thollot (1946-2014), batteur et compositeur de jazz". Le Monde. Retrieved 19 October 2024.