Caroline de Bendern

Caroline de Bendern was born in 1945 in Windsor, Berkshire, the daughter of John de Bendern and Lady Patricia Sybil Douglas (daughter of Francis Douglas, 11th Marquess of Queensberry), and the granddaughter of Maurice de Forest, Count de Bendern. ==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 at place Edmond Rostand, near the Luxembourg gardens, appeared in Life and Paris Match. ==Film==

Caroline de Bendern appears in a number of films made by the Zanzibar Group of radical French filmmakers, including and Olivier Mosset, which was active from 1968 to 1970. Her own film ''À l'intention de Mlle Issoufou à Bilma'' documents a trip across Africa made with Serge Bard and others. 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. The 2017 reissue of Moshi includes de Bendern's film. ==Personal life==

Caroline de Bendern was the partner of musician , who died in 2014. ==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 • 1968: (as actor) '''', directed by Serge Bard • 1971: (as director) ''A l'intention de Mlle Issoufou à Bilma'' • 1999: Zanzibar à Saint-Sulpice, directed by Gérard Courant • 2011: (as director) Dark Gable - Archie Shepp and Joachim Kühn at the Fondation Cartier, May 2011 ==References==