The Italian feminist, author and co-founder of Rivolta Femminile, Carla Lonzi, dedicated the last years of her life to researching a group of 17th century French proto-feminists known as “Les Précieuses”. This project remained unfinished after her premature death in 1982. In 1992, the publication “Armande, sono io!” appeared, documenting Lonzi’s notes, thoughts and sketches on the history of this protofeminist group. This film takes Lonzi’s unfinished project as starting point and echo chamber for its narrative, in order to rethink it from a contemporary perspective, to highlight specific feminist experiences between three centuries and thus establish a historical continuity where none was (visible) before. (Constanze Ruhm)

Constanze Ruhm, born in Vienna in 1965, lives in the Austrian capital and in Berlin as an artist, filmmaker, and curator. From 2004 to 2006, she was professor of film and video at the Merz Academy in Stuttgart. Since 2006, she has been professor of art and media at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna.

Filmography: 2020 GLI APPUNTI DI ANNA AZZORI, UNO SPECCHIO CHE VIAGGIA NEL TEMPO, 2024 IT IS AT THIS POINT THAT THE NEED TO WRITE HISTORY ARISES