Born in Beirut to a French Alsatian father and Swiss mother, raised for a time in New York City, and trained as an actress in France, the born-cosmopolitan Delphine Seyrig would be launched to international arthouse celebrity via her role in Alain Resnais’s 1961 "Last Year at Marienbad". In the years to come, she would emerge as an outspoken feminist icon and strong-minded curator of her iconoclastic international career, carefully choosing her own collaborators (including female filmmakers Marguerite Duras and Chantal Akerman) and also directing films herself, with Carole Roussopoulos, under the collective name Les Insoumuses (Defiant Muses), producing works exploring the possibilities created by newly emergent video technology as a tool for emancipation and political activism. “The theater and films,” Seyrig once said, “are very far from women’s consciousness about themselves”—and few have done more than she, in the course of her career, to close that gap.