Germaine Dulac (17 November 1882, Amiens, France - 20 July 1942, Paris) was a French film director and early film theorist. Events 284 - Diocletian is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers Year 1882 ( MDCCCLXXXII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Amiens (amjɛ̃ is a city and commune in northern France, 120 km north of Paris. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Events 1304 - Wars of Scottish Independence: Fall of Stirling Castle - King Edward I of England takes the last rebel stronghold Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city Film theory debates the essence of the cinema and provides conceptual frameworks for understanding film's relationship to Reality, the other Arts individual Famously, she directed The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928), based on a scenario by Antonin Artaud. La Coquille et le clergyman ( English: The Seashell and the Clergyman) ( 1928) is considered by many to be the first Surrealist Events Although some movies released in 1928 had sound, most were still silent. Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud, better known as Antonin Artaud ( September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in This film has been credited as the first surrealist film, released shortly before Un Chien Andalou (1929) by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí. Un chien andalou ( An Andalusian Dog) is a 1928 short Surrealist film made in France by two Spanish auteurs the Aragonian Events The days of the Silent film were numbered A mad scramble to provide synchronized sound was on Luis Buñuel Portolés (22 February 1900 &ndash 29 July 1983 was a Spanish -born Filmmaker and naturalized Mexican who worked mainly in Mexico Salvador Domingo Felipe Jacinto Dalí i Domènech 1st Marquis of Púbol (May 11 1904 &ndash January 23 1989 was a Spanish Catalan Surrealist However, other scholars, including Ephraim Katz, consider her an Impressionist filmmaker.

He other films include The Smiling Madame Beudet.

Bibliography

• Wendy Dozoretz, Germaine Dulac : Filmmaker, Polemicist, Theoretician, (New York University Dissertation, 1982), 362 pp. New York University ( NYU) is a private, Nonsectarian, Coeducational Research University in New York City.

• Charles Ford, Germaine Dulac : 1882 - 1942, Paris : Avant-Scène du Cinéma, 1968, 48 p. (Serie: Anthologie du cinéma ; 31)

• Lee Jamieson, 'The Lost Prophet of Cinema: The Film Theory of Antonin Artaud' in Senses of Cinema, Issue 44, July 2007 [1]

See also

• Women's Cinema
• Avant-Garde: Experimental Cinema of the 1920's and 1930's (DVD collection which includes Seashell and the Clergyman)
• Avant-garde
• Experimental film
• Cinema pur

External links

• Rétrospective Germaine Dulac
• Germaine Dulac at the Internet Movie Database
• The Seashell and the Clergyman at the Internet Movie Database
• The Seashell and the Clergyman at UbuWeb

Avant-Garde is a DVD-series with experimental films released by Kino International. Avant-garde (avɑ̃gaʁd in French) means "advance guard" or "vanguard This article is on the variety of film For information on the They Might Be Giants song see " Experimental Film (song " Cinéma Pur ( French for Pure Cinema) was an Avant-garde film movement birthed in Paris in the 1920s and 30s

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