Germaine Dulac (French:[dylak]; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942)[2] was a French filmmaker, film theorist, journalist and critic. She was born in Amiens and moved to Paris in early childhood. A few years after her marriage she embarked on a journalistic career in a feminist magazine, and later became interested in film. With the help of her husband and friend she founded a film company and directed a few commercial works before slowly moving into Impressionist and Surrealist territory. She is best known today for her Impressionist film, La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madam Beudet, 1922/23), and her Surrealist experiment, La Coquille et le Clergyman (The Seashell and the Clergyman, 1928). Her career as filmmaker suffered after the introduction of sound film and she spent the last decade of her life working on newsreels for Pathé and Gaumont.
^Tami Williams, Germaine Dulac: A Cinema of Sensations. Champaign, Illinois: University of Illinois Press, 2014. p. 164. [1]
GermaineDulac (French: [dylak]; born Charlotte Elisabeth Germaine Saisset-Schneider; 17 November 1882 – 20 July 1942) was a French filmmaker, film theorist...
1923, directed by pioneering avant-garde cinema director GermaineDulac. It stars Germaine Dermoz as Madame Beudet and Alexandre Arquillière as Monsieur...
Coquille et le Clergyman) is a 1928 French experimental film directed by GermaineDulac, from an original scenario by Antonin Artaud. It premiered in Paris...
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assisting), Watson and Webber's Fall of the House of Usher (1928) and GermaineDulac's The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) (from a screenplay by Antonin...
Antoinette Sabrier is a 1927 French silent drama film directed by GermaineDulac and starring Ève Francis, Gabriel Gabrio and Jean Toulout. The film's...
1922 La souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet); director: GermaineDulac; often cited as one of the first feminist feature films 1923 The Song...
French Impressionist filmmakers include Abel Gance, Jean Epstein, GermaineDulac, Marcel L'Herbier, Louis Delluc, and Dmitry Kirsanoff. Clair de Lune...
Seashell and the Clergyman (French: La Coquille et le clergyman) by GermaineDulac, scenario by Antonin Artaud (1928) L'Étoile de mer by Man Ray (1928)...
Princesse Mandane) is a 1928 French silent adventure film directed by GermaineDulac and starring Edmonde Guy and Mona Goya. It is based on the 1922 novel...
cinema on the African continent. Hugo Münsterberg Ricciotto Canudo GermaineDulac Béla Balázs Siegfried Kracauer Vsevolod Pudovkin Jean Epstein Sergei...
William Kennedy Dickson Albert Dieudonné Vincent Dieutre Arielle Dombasle GermaineDulac Bruno Dumont François Dupeyron Marguerite Duras Julien Duvivier Christine...
how techniques influenced film as art. Among early French theorists, GermaineDulac brought the concept of impressionism to film by describing cinema that...
was one of the early Impressionist filmmakers, along with Abel Gance, GermaineDulac, Marcel L'Herbier, and Jean Epstein. His films are notable for their...
into nonsequitur. Artists Hans Richter, Jean Cocteau, Marcel Duchamp, GermaineDulac, and Viking Eggeling all contributed Dadaist/Surrealist shorts. Fernand...
also dominated French impressionist cinema, along with Abel Gance, GermaineDulac and Jean Epstein. In 1931, Marcel Pagnol filmed the first of his great...
La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet), directed by GermaineDulac – (France) Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep, directed by George Pearson...
works of F. W. Murnau and Robert Wiene, French Surrealist shorts by GermaineDulac and Man Ray, Robert J. Flaherty, Carl Theodor Dreyer and particularly...
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